Antique Italian Hand Carved Walnut Renaissance Dragon & Knight Throne Chair 1880 Sold Indiana in 1945

Indiana in 1945

The desk is raised on featherbanded tulipwood cabriole legs

and at the Exhibition of the Society of Amateurs and Connoisseurs in 1893

it remains a celebrated piece of jewelry

A highly important Flemish Old Master oil painting by Peter Van Lint (1609-1690)

Antique Italian Hand Carved Walnut Renaissance Dragon & Knight Throne Chair 1880 Sold Indiana in 1945SOLD A fine & remarkable carved walnut Renaissance Revival Italian Curule chair, carved with Dragons & Knights, circa 1880. The chair having a very finely carved top crest with a pair of winged dragons with their claws resting on a shield draped with a carved chain with a dragons tooth, the dragons flank a knight's helmet, to each side are 'grotesques' carved as the head of monks. The back having an upholstered head rest with stylized acanthus leaf