Antique Italian Hand Carved Walnut Renaissance Dragon & Knight Throne Chair 1880 Drawings & Prints National Gallery of Art (Washington

National Gallery of Art (Washington D

with floral garlands & painted 'basket-weave' designs

Frederic Carder

the under-plate with similar decoration and reticulation

after Cornelis van Poelenburgh

Antique Italian Hand Carved Walnut Renaissance Dragon & Knight Throne Chair 1880 Drawings & Prints National Gallery of Art (WashingtonSOLD 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