Triple-back settee (part of a set)

Italian, Sicily

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This settee is from a large set of seat furniture, which included at least four settees and twenty side chairs. It was formerly thought to have been commissioned for the Villa Palagonia at Bagheria near Palermo, but the provenance remains undocumented, and the initials in the cipher at the center of the back, "PPL," are as yet unidentified. The reverse-painted glass panels in imitation of agate, lapis, and marble are a distinctive feature often used on late-eighteenth-century Neoclassical Sicilian furniture.

Triple-back settee (part of a set), Carved, gilded and painted walnut, reverse painted glass, cut and voided 17th-century crimson velvet, Italian, Sicily

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Triple-back settee (part of a set), Carved, gilded and painted walnut, reverse painted glass, cut and voided 17th-century crimson velvet, Italian, Sicily
Triple-back settee (part of a set), Carved, gilded and painted walnut, reverse painted glass, cut and voided 17th-century crimson velvet, Italian, Sicily
Triple-back settee (part of a set), Carved, gilded and painted walnut, reverse painted glass, cut and voided 17th-century crimson velvet, Italian, Sicily
Triple-back settee (part of a set), Carved, gilded and painted walnut, reverse painted glass, cut and voided 17th-century crimson velvet, Italian, Sicily

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