Antique Italian Hand Carved Walnut Renaissance Dragon & Knight Throne Chair 1880 Redo circa 1970

circa 1970

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

Although in poor health

Villanis" to the shoulder

he made small-scale devotional paintings

Antique Italian Hand Carved Walnut Renaissance Dragon & Knight Throne Chair 1880 Redo circa 1970SOLD 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