A rare pair of late 16th century boarded walnut 'sedile a pozzetto', Tuscan, circa 1580


A pair of enclosed box chairs, each with a seven-sided back formed from upright boards, with applied moulded frame to each outer-face, the sectional arm-rest rail with ovolo-moulded edge and dentil gauge-carved underfrieze, the heptagonal single seat board above a box-base, accessed by a central boarded door, again with moulded border, and flanked by two similar 'panels', deep base mouldings, restorations, 57.5cm wide x 49cm deep x 80.5cm high, (22 1/2in wide x 19in deep x 31 1/2in high) (2)
|Provenance:With The Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Purchased 1980s.Literature:See F. Schottmüller, Furniture and Interior Decoration of the Italian Renaissance (1928), p. 172, pl. 393, and Mario Tintini, Il Mobilio Florentino (1929), p. 272, for a comparable chair in the Horne Collection, Florence.