A matched set of five Italian bone inlaid alla certosina parquetry and walnut chairs and two armchairs, Lombardo-Veneto, part 17th century

each with an open back with two scrolled panels above a rectangular seat above a scrolled seat-rail, on straights legs the front stretcher similarly carved to the back, the whole inlaid with bone in a geometric design; restorations and replacements 

In need of some attention. The colour overall is darker and more attractive then in the catalogue photograph. There is fading in parts especially on the seats and arms. There is a section on the exterior on the leg of one armchair missing 29cm x4cm. which will need restoring and the same armchair is unstable.The front foot on the other armchair is missing and part of the other front foot so that it is unstable and will need restoring and on the same armchair there have been several replacements and worm damage to the rear left foot. There is a horizontal crack across the seat of one chair which would benefit to being filled and the stretchers are currently attached to the legs with masking tape and will need attention. Other restored cracks to the other chairs. The scrolled finial on one of the chairs has been completely chipped off but can easily be recarved. The rear stretcher on another chair is missing and part of the rear right leg is missing and most of the lower front stretcher is missing. On another chair part of the side of the rear left and front right feet are missing.
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Comparative Literature:
William M. Odom, A History of Italian Furniture, Vol. I, New York, 1966, pp. 330-332, for various chairs with similarly scrolled backs and stretchers in the Bardini collects ion, Florence.

The technique of `certosina' is a type of 15th century inlay work made with polygonal tesserae of wood, bone, metal and mother-of-pearl arranged in geometric patterns and was especially popular in Lombardy and Venice. From around the third quarter of the 15th century to around the first quarter of the 16th century, the marquetry technique reached its apogee in Italy. Certainly in Central Italy the marqueteers created works to rival that of the painters in Northern Italy, producing coffers and other pieces of furniture in a uniquely geometric and floral design utilising a technique of cutting out little pieces of wood and tinted bone and ivory.