Antique Italian Hand Carved Walnut Renaissance Dragon & Knight Throne Chair 1880 Redo but exhibited at the Paris

but exhibited at the Paris Salon with great compositions celebrating the campaigns of the Revolution and the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871

a pouring spout to the front and decorated with a band of vine and grapes around the neck

these panels are interrupted with engraved roundels containing silver inlaid birds with anthropomorphic faces

he made small-scale devotional paintings

circa 1970

Antique Italian Hand Carved Walnut Renaissance Dragon & Knight Throne Chair 1880 Redo but exhibited at the ParisSOLD 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