A set of four Italian carved giltwood armchairs, Roman, late 18th century

each with an octagonal back sumounted by a foliate carved top-rail within a laurel carved frame above ribbon-tied reeded downscrolled arms on leaf carved baulster supports above a bowed padded seat, the seat-rail carved with a geometric panel enclosing a patera above a laurel swag on foliate carved tapering legs, with the original webbing; three formerly with castors; three with a printed paper label Eigentun des Grafen Anton und der Grafinnen Karoline und Adelheid Lanckoronski

Count Anton and Countesses Karoline and Adelheid Lanckoroński, Vienna, photographed in situ in the Freskensaal – fresco room–of the Palais Lanckoroński at Jaquingasse 16-18, Vienna, reproduced here in fig.1.
Seized from the above by the National Socialist regime in September 1939.
Restituted to the Lanckoroński family on the 11^thSeptember 1947.

Gilding less greenish more golden and attractive than in the catalogue photograph. Excellent Provenance. Joints sound and sturdy. Construction cracks at joints commensurate with age and normal usage. There are scattered minor chips to the gilding as visible from the catalogue photograph which can easily be touched up. Evidence of old worm which appears to be no longer active. Onthe seat-rail of one armchair, a roundel flanking a swag is missing but this can easily be replaced. On the side-rail of another armchair, a roundel appears to have been replaced and touched up with gilt paint.
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The noble Lanckoroński family were aristocrats originally from Galicia and they assembled a major art collection through the generations, including Italian Renaissance paintings as well as German, French, and Dutch pictures, antique sculptures, bronzes, glass miniatures and porcelain. Count Karol Lanckoroński continued his family’s interest in the collection. He was a collector, archaeologist, art patron, author and conservator and also served as chamberlain to emperor Franz Joseph I. His additions to the collection included antique sculptures, as well as paintings by Tintoretto,Canaletto and Rembrandt. The art collection in the Lanckoroński Palais became one of the largest in Vienna under his stewardship.  The Palais Lanckoroński was located at Jacquingasse 16-18, in the Landstraße District  in Vienna, Austria. It was constructed in 1894-95 for Count Karol Lanckoroński and his family as a personal residence, and it housed the count's extensive art collection. Precious paintings, furniture and sculpture from different eras were arranged to form themed ensembles in the various rooms, with the rooms named to reflect the collection housed within. The palace was severely damaged in World War II, and was torn down in the 1960s.