Description
Curved armchair called Savonarola in walnut inlaid with bone(?) engraved. The curved backrest centered on the Reichert family coat of arms, quartered at 1 and 4 with an ostrich holding a horseshoe in its beak, all proper, at 2 and 3 cut in 1 with a lion rising, a fess charged with three stars and at 2 with a branch. The coat of arms is flanked by chimeras and foliage and surmounted by a helmet topped by three ears of wheat in crest. Italy, second half of the 19th century, in the Renaissance style. Height : 96 cm - Width : 77 cm Provenance: Reichert family, Bavaria. (small lacks to the inlays) J.-B. Rietstap, Armorial général (...), Gouda, 1861, p. 867
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Curved armchair called Savonarola in walnut inlaid with bone(?) engraved. The curved backrest centered on the Reichert family coat of arms, quartered at 1 and 4 with an ostrich holding a horseshoe in its beak, all proper, at 2 and 3 cut in 1 with a lion rising, a fess charged with three stars and at 2 with a branch. The coat of arms is flanked by chimeras and foliage and surmounted by a helmet topped by three ears of wheat in crest. Italy, second half of the 19th century, in the Renaissance style. Height : 96 cm - Width : 77 cm Provenance: Reichert family, Bavaria. (small lacks to the inlays) J.-B. Rietstap, Armorial général (...), Gouda, 1861, p. 867
