Lot 986
982 A PAIR OF REGENCY SIMULATED ROSEWOOD AND BRASS MOUNTED SIDE CHAIRS, with rail-backs, with flowerhead and leaf mounts, on sabre legs
986 AN ITALIAN NEO-CLASSICAL GILTWOOD ARMCHAIR, the design attributed to Lorenzo and Dionisio Santi, circa 1806, with a triangular arched pediment decorated with facing griffins and supported on fluted pilasters, with winged lion monopodia arms over a fluted frieze, on shaped front legs ending in paw feet, 27" wide. See illustration
£150-250 983 A PAIR OF CONE-SHAPED BOX TREES, 34" high (2)
£50-100
984 A PAIR OF BOX TREES, each clipped into a double ball-shape, 34" high (2)
£80-160
985 A PAIR OF BOX TREES, each clipped into a spiral shape, 41" high (2)
Provenance: Almost certainly part of a large suite of furniture made for Cardinal Joseph Fesch (1763-1839) for the Palazzo Buffalo-Ferraioli, Rome, circa 1806.
Thence by descent to Fesch's principal heir, Joseph Bonaparte, King of Spain.
Later sold from the Villa San Donato, Florence, March 1880.
Acquired on the London art market by the vendor in the 1980's.
Private collection, Dorset.
£8,000-£12,000
£100-200 162