Set of four Renaissance back chairs

Origin : France
Period : 16th century, around 1560-1580

Height : 102 cm
Length : 49 cm
Depth : 42 cm

Heat seating : 47 cm

Walnut wood
Leather furnishing with round brass nails

Provenance
Castle of Villarceau (north-west of Paris)
Mrs. Jacqueline Boccador

Set of four stark and elegant back chairs. The annulet column front legs are linked by a square spacer.
Leather sheets of origin for the seat and back fixed with brass nails.

The straight back has acanthus-leaves finials.

Reference
BOCCADOR Jacqueline, Le Mobilier Français du Moyen-Âge à la Renaissance, 1996, Éditions d’art Monelle Hayot, Saint-Rémy-en-l’Eau, page 296