A very rare pair of Renaissance high-back armchairs,
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so-called chaises à bras, France mid-16th century, solid walnut frames in trapezoidal shape,
curved armrests on round turned column supports, backrests with forced perspective carvings, old wormholes, signs of age and use as well as cracks.
Similar variants of this model are preserved at the MAK (Museum of Applied Arts – inv. no. H 1627) in Vienna and at the Louvre in Paris.
Cf. Lit.:
Franz Windisch-Graetz, Möbel Europas. Renaissance und Manierismus, pp. 58–60, p. 269, ill. 137, Verlag Klinkhardt und Biermann, Munich 1982
Alvar Gonzales-Palacios, Europäische Möbelkunst, Frankreich 16.–18. Jh., ill. 13, Schuler Verlagsgesellschaft, Munich, 1975 Hermann Schmitz, Das Möbelwerk, Die Möbelformen vom Altertum bis zur Mitte des 19. Jh., pp. 103 and 106, Berlin 1942
Specialist: Alexander Doczy
Alexander Doczy
+43-1-515 60-302
alexander.doczy@dorotheum.at
10.05.2017 - 17:00
- Realized price: **
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EUR 40,000.-
- Estimate:
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EUR 20,000.- to EUR 30,000.-
A very rare pair of Renaissance high-back armchairs,
so-called chaises à bras, France mid-16th century, solid walnut frames in trapezoidal shape,
curved armrests on round turned column supports, backrests with forced perspective carvings, old wormholes, signs of age and use as well as cracks.
Similar variants of this model are preserved at the MAK (Museum of Applied Arts – inv. no. H 1627) in Vienna and at the Louvre in Paris.
Cf. Lit.:
Franz Windisch-Graetz, Möbel Europas. Renaissance und Manierismus, pp. 58–60, p. 269, ill. 137, Verlag Klinkhardt und Biermann, Munich 1982
Alvar Gonzales-Palacios, Europäische Möbelkunst, Frankreich 16.–18. Jh., ill. 13, Schuler Verlagsgesellschaft, Munich, 1975 Hermann Schmitz, Das Möbelwerk, Die Möbelformen vom Altertum bis zur Mitte des 19. Jh., pp. 103 and 106, Berlin 1942
Specialist: Alexander Doczy
Alexander Doczy
+43-1-515 60-302
alexander.doczy@dorotheum.at
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| Auction: | Collection Reinhold Hofstätter - Furniture and decorative Art |
| Auction type: | Saleroom auction |
| Date: | 10.05.2017 - 17:00 |
| Location: | Vienna | Palais Dorotheum |
| Exhibition: | 05.05. - 10.05.2017 |
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