Antique Italian Hand Carved Walnut Renaissance Dragon & Knight Throne Chair 1880 Drawings & Prints with floral garlands & painted

with floral garlands & painted 'basket-weave' designs

A fine pair of late 19th century handpainted German KPM porcelain portrait plaques circa 1890

with sumptuous marquetry inlay of flowering urns with inlaid butterflies above

National Gallery of Art (Washington D

Frederic Carder

Antique Italian Hand Carved Walnut Renaissance Dragon & Knight Throne Chair 1880 Drawings & Prints with floral garlands & paintedSOLD 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