Decorative Arts: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue of the Collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum

SEAT FURNITURE

325. Side Chair
     Turin, circa 1710-1715
     Gilt wood with modern silk upholstery
     copying the original silk
     Height: 4 ft. 2^5 /s in. (118.5 cm); Width:
     ι ft. 9% in. (55.6 cm); Depth: 2 ft. 3^3 /s in.
     (69.5 cm)
     Accession number 83.DA. 281

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PROVENANCE

House of Savoy, Racconigi, Turin; Mrs.

Walter Hayes Burns (nιe Morgan), North

Mymms Park, Hertfordshire; Major-

General Sir George Burns, North Mymms

Park (sold, Christie's, North Mymms Park,

September 24-26,1979, lot 215 [one of five]);

[Partridge (Fine Arts), Ltd., London,

1979-1983].

BIBLIOGRAPHY

"Acquisitions/1983," GettyMusJ 12 (1984),

no. 16, p. 267, illus.

326. Set of Four Armchairs
     Venice, circa 1730-1740
     Carved, gessoed, and gilt walnut; upholstered
     in modern Genoese velvet
     Armchair .1: Height: 2 ft. io^34 in. (137.8 cm);
     Width: 2 ft. 9Κ in. (85.1 cm); Depth:
     2 ft. 10^3 4 in. (88.3 cm); Armchair .2: Height:
     4 ft. yYs in. (140 cm); Width: 2 ft. 9% in.
     (86 cm); Depth: 2 ft. 10% in. (87.3 cm);
     Armchair .3: Height: 4 ft. 6% in. (138.5 cm);
     Width: 2 ft. 9% in. (85.8 cm); Depth:
     2 ft. 11^3 4 in. (89.8 cm); Armchair .4: Height:
     4 ft. 7% in. (140.3 cm); Width: 2 ft. 9% in.
     (86 cm); Depth: 2 ft. 9% in. (84.5 cm)
     Accession number 87.DA.2.1—.4

PROVENANCE

Private collection, England, since the eigh­

teenth century; [Alexander and Berendt,

Ltd., London, 1984].

BIBLIOGRAPHY

"Acquisitions/1987," GettyMusJ 16 (1988),

no. 78, pp. 180-181, illus.

One of four 326

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