LOT 23:
Ebonized, gilt, silvered and carved wooden lounge set, France, Empire period
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Sold for: €36,000
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Ebonized, gilt, silvered and carved wooden lounge set, France, Empire period
composed of a pair of sofas with a curved profile, two armchairs and a pair of footstools. Structure finely carved to depict snakes with a long body entirely covered in scales which, folding on itself, forms the armrests ideally supported by a leafy tuft; feral legs and feet. The footstools with legs in the shape of a winged lion caryatid, the sofas: cm. 99x215x67; the armchairs: cm. 82x61x77 and cm. 88x61x77; the footrests: cm. 19x47x38 (some defects)
Under the armchairs paper label with the name of Maria Clorinda de Franceschi Bocchi Bianchi

