LATE 17TH CENTURY
细节
A PAIR OF DUTCH WALNUT OPEN ARMCHAIRS
Late 17th Century
Each carved overall with scrolling acanthus and flowerheads, the shaped rectangular caned back below a pierced toprail of confronting serpentine scrolls, and flanked by spirally-turned side supports, the down-scrolled arms on spirally-turned supports, with a caned seat on spirally-turned legs joined by conforming stretchers, with confronting S-scroll front stretcher, minor variations in carving, originally with feet, now cut down, previously but not originally with castors, inscribed in paint to the underside '20A' and '20B', minor variations in carving (2)
Late 17th Century
Each carved overall with scrolling acanthus and flowerheads, the shaped rectangular caned back below a pierced toprail of confronting serpentine scrolls, and flanked by spirally-turned side supports, the down-scrolled arms on spirally-turned supports, with a caned seat on spirally-turned legs joined by conforming stretchers, with confronting S-scroll front stretcher, minor variations in carving, originally with feet, now cut down, previously but not originally with castors, inscribed in paint to the underside '20A' and '20B', minor variations in carving (2)