A matched set of six Italian carved walnut chairs, late 17th century

each with a studded leather upholstered arched tapering back and seat on block and spiral turned legs joined by turned front and an H-form stretcher on bun feet; some variation in carving; reblocked

Sebastian Schutze, Palazzo Sacchetti, Rome, 2003, illustrated p. 80 in L'Ingresso del piano nobile.

In need of some attention as all the chairs have unstable backs. The back of the shortest chair has different rear legs and rear stretcher to the rest and all the legs have been reblocked. Evidence of old very minor worm which appears no longer active. There are some minor losses generally to some of the ring-turning on the stretchers and the rear leg on the second shortest chair has a break and some losses and would benefit from some attention with scattered cracks in the other rear leg of the same chair. There have been old minor restorations generally.
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Comparative Literature:
Goffredo Lizzani, Il Mobile Romano, Milan, 1970, p. 91, no. 147, for a related chair a in the Ruspoli Collection.
A related set of twenty chairs was sold Da una Dimora di Piazza Farnese, Sotheby's, Rome, 18th May 2004, lot 451.