Detail of foot of walnut folding armchair, in the form of a paw

Detail of back of walnut folding armchair, showing crest

Walnut folding armchair with central crest

Alternate view of walnut folding armchair with central crest

Folding Armchair with Armorial Escutcheons in Relief (One of a Pair)

Italian, Sixteenth Century

or Italian, Nineteenth Century

Date16th or 19th century

MediumWalnut

Dimensions37 1/4 x 28 x 23 in. (94.6 x 71.1 x 58.4 cm)

Credit LineHenry Clay Frick Bequest

Accession number1918.5.110

Collection History

Guidi or Serguidi (?). Balducci (?). Palazzo Davanzati, Florence (?). Duveen. Frick, 1918.

Source: Furniture in The Frick Collection: Italian and French Renaissance, French 18th and 19th Centuries (Pt. I). Volume V. New York: The Frick Collection, 1992.

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