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A SOUTH ITALIAN GILTWOOD, GILT-LEAD MOUNTED PROVENANCE:
AND REVERSE-PAINTED GLASS SETTEE Possibly supplied for Don Francesco Ferdinando Gravina, Prince of
SICILY, CIRCA 1780 Palagonia (1722-1789).
With an inset paneled toprail with central breakfront cypher table with Subsequently purchased by the Earl of Derby, Derby House, London,
initials 'PPL', further decorated tablets with military trophies, above a circa 1910 from Lenygon.
canted rectangular padded seatback, the conforming seat above a paneled The Earl of Derby, K. G., Derby House, London; Christie's, London, 26
seatrail on rosette-headed square tapering legs with foliate capitals and feet July 1940, lot 84 (a suite of twenty chairs and four settees).
Mrs. Violet van der Elst, Grantham Castle, Lincs.; Christie's, London, 8
78º in. (199 cm.) long
April 1948, lot 114 (a suite of eleven chairs and three settees).
$20,000-30,000 With Adolph Loewi, Los Angeles.
Acquired from Russell McKinnon, Inc., Los Angeles, 1964.
The James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection, Chicago.

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