Antique Italian Hand Carved Walnut Renaissance Dragon & Knight Throne Chair 1880 Sculpture it has just been wax

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Antique Italian Hand Carved Walnut Renaissance Dragon & Knight Throne Chair 1880 Sculpture it has just been waxSOLD 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