Antique Italian Hand Carved Walnut Renaissance Dragon & Knight Throne Chair 1880 Sold mounted with portrait miniatures

mounted with portrait miniatures

the secretary cabinet is made from the finest figured Cuban mahogany

circa 1950

The Earl of Leicester's Visit to Amy Robsart at Cumnor Place is exhibited at Petworth House (the preparatory drawing for the latter is in the British Museum

Antique Italian Hand Carved Walnut Renaissance Dragon & Knight Throne Chair 1880 Sold mounted with portrait miniaturesSOLD A fine & remarkable carved walnut Renaissance Revival Italian Curule chair, carved with Dragons & Knights, circa 1880. The chair having a very finely carved top crest with a pair of winged dragons with their claws resting on a shield draped with a carved chain with a dragons tooth, the dragons flank a knight's helmet, to each side are 'grotesques' carved as the head of monks. The back having an upholstered head rest with stylized acanthus leaf