Antique Italian Hand Carved Walnut Renaissance Dragon & Knight Throne Chair 1880 Paintings brought from China in 1900

brought from China in 1900

Robertson Craig exhibited in Dublin from the 1950s

garnitures and vases in plaster and terracotta

hoping to get the articles published in the U

Antique Italian Hand Carved Walnut Renaissance Dragon & Knight Throne Chair 1880 Paintings brought from China in 1900SOLD 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