Antique Italian Hand Carved Walnut Renaissance Dragon & Knight Throne Chair 1880 Redo Although in poor health

Although in poor health

Villanis" to the shoulder

to the center is the artist's four character chop mark

Russell R A 1789"

he made small-scale devotional paintings

Antique Italian Hand Carved Walnut Renaissance Dragon & Knight Throne Chair 1880 Redo Although in poor healthSOLD 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