"Two Arm Chairs. Seventeenth Century."
Armchairs in turned and carved walnut. The slightly sloping backrest, sculpted in hollow feathers, still Renaissance in influence, rests on an overflowing wooden seat and four spirally turned legs connected by an H-shaped spacer bearing a spinning top and also turned in a spiral; the braces under the backrest and seat crosspieces framed other missing tops; a low, toned crosspiece connects the front legs. Small differences distinguish these two seats, namely dimensions, assembly dice...