Antique Italian Hand Carved Walnut Renaissance Dragon & Knight Throne Chair 1880 Sculpture September 14

September 14

Arnaldo Roche Rabell began his artistic training at the Luchetti School of Art in Santurce

the development of modern and contemporary art in New York and Europe including the work of Mark Rothko

it has just been wax polished in Bloomsbury's workshops and has a warm deep honey colored patina

The brothers found employment in Portland in the 1920s

Antique Italian Hand Carved Walnut Renaissance Dragon & Knight Throne Chair 1880 Sculpture September 14SOLD 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