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Title: Illustrated catalogue of the exceedingly rare and valuable art treasures and antiquities formerly contained in the famous Davanzati Palace, Florence, Italy
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: American Art Association Townsend, Horace, 1859-1922 Volpi, Elia, 1858-1938 Guglielmetti, Cesare A Rusconi, Arturo Jahn
Subjects: Volpi, Elia, 1858-1938
Publisher: New York : American Art Association
Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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uche with a crowned eagledisplayed. The footboard is carved with acanthus-leaf volutes,and the ends and sides are molded. Height, 5 feet 4 inches; length, (> feet; width, 4 feet (5 inches. (Illustrated) 452—Late Sixteenth Century Italian Carved and Gilt Wal-nut Low-post Bed ^J ■ /3«1^^^t ^ _^t-iCj & The foot-posts have molded and carved Corinthian capitals,molded bases, shafts enriched with spiral turnings and carvings,and are surmounted by spirally fluted vases ending in flames.The head-posts have turned capitals and spiral shafts enrichedwith carving, support the molded and dentelled cornice of theheadboard, and terminate in flamed vases. The headboardcornice and the scrolled voluted and acanthus-leaf pediment aresupported by a pierced arcading of four round arches on twinspirally turned columns. The posts rest on square pedestals andthe sides and end are plain. Completely gilded. Height, 5 feet 11% inches; length, 7 feet 6 inches; width, 5 feet 31/4inches. (Illustrated)
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No. 451. SIXTEENTH CENTURY TUSCAN WALNUT LOW-POST BED

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