Asta Bidspirit | Ebonized, gilt, silvered and carved

Ebonized, gilt, silvered and carved wooden lounge set, France, Empire period - composed of a pair of sofas with a curved profile, two armchairs and a pair of footstools. Structure finely carved to depict snakes with a long body entirely covered in scales which, folding on itself, forms the armrests ideally supported by a leafy tuft; feral legs and feet. The footstools with legs in the shape of a winged lion caryatid, the sofas: cm. 99x215x67; the armchairs: cm. 82x61x77 and cm. 88x61x77; the footrests: cm. 19x47x38 (some defects) Under the armchairs paper label with the name of Maria Clorinda de Franceschi Bocchi Bianchi