Italian Walnut Savonarola Armchair with Olive Velvet Upholstery

An Italian walnut X-framed Savonarola armchair, 19th century,…
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An Italian walnut X-framed Savonarola armchair, 19th century, the upholstered back of rounded form with reeded supports and rosettes, the outstretched padded open arms in tasselled olive velvet, the curved stuff over seat raised upon a reeded X-frame with central rosette. Height 90 cm, width 62 cm, depth 69 cm

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  • Reeding - A series of parallel, raised convex mouldings or bands, in section resembling a series of the letter 'm'. The opposite form of fluting, with which it is sometimes combined. Reeding is commonly found on chair legs, either turned or straight, on the arms and backs of chairs and couches and around table edges in the Neoclassical or Classical Revival manner. Reeding was also used as a form of decoration during the Edwardian period, but it is usually much shallower and evidently machine made.
  • Rosette - A stylised circular-shaped disk with turned or carved decoration decoration applied to a surface, or carved into the surface, especially used in ceramics, jewellery, furniture, sculpture and textiles. Also known as a boss or a paterae or patera.

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