A set of five 16th/17th century walnut and beech folding-chairs, Italian, probably Tuscan, circa 1600


Each having a raked back of six reeded slats, descending to form an X-form base, the plain slatted seat having a metal rod threaded through the centre, the shaped cresting rail with a large central chip-carved roundel above a row of five matching lunettes, on sledge feet, 49cm wide x 57cm deep x 97.5cm high, (19in wide x 22in deep x 38in high) (5)
|Provenance:With The Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.Purchased 1980s.Handwritten, ink-stamped and tin-plate inventory numbers to the base of the sledge feet.Literature:A similar chair illustrated F. Schottmüller, Furniture and Interior Decoration of the Italian Renaissance (1928), p. 173, and annotated as in the collection of the Schloss-Museum, Berlin.