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  Giacinto Melillo (1846-1915) Naples “Etruscan / Archaeological Revival” Campana bracelet in 18k gold with extremely delicate and elaborate granulation gold work, delicate applied gold wire-work and gold beading further accented with polychrome enamel details, two cabochon bead emeralds and a pearl on 7 hinged square panels and two semi-circular panels, signed: G. Melillo touch mark on top of the end screw clasp and Triunfo (triumph) in a cartouche on the back of one of the arcing panels, c.1870

  Dimensions: Length: 7 and 5/8 inches x Width: 1 inch

  Weight: 3.20 Troy ounces / 99.4 grams / 63.9 pennyweights

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  George Jakob Hunzinger New York 19th Century Rare Painted Chair 1876

  GEORGE JAKOB HUNZINGER (1835-1898) Germany/ USA

  Chair 1876

  Yellow and blue painted elaborately turned wood, blue thread woven covered metal band mesh seat (original condition)

  Marks: George Hunzinger Patent 1876

  Illustrated: The Furniture of George Hunzinger, Invention and Innovation in Nineteenth-Century America, Barry R. Harwood (Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum of Art, 1997) p.103.

  H: 32″ x D: 17″ x W: 20″

  GEORGE JAKOB HUNZINGER   (1835-18989)  USA

  George Hunzinger emigrated in the 1850s from the Black Forest region of Germany where his family had worked as cabinetmakers since the 17th century.  Settling in New York, he joined a community of 3,000 German furniture makers but soon distinguished himself as a maker of patent furniture and “fancy chairs”.  Hunzinger’s innovative designs are often associated with the development of the Aesthetic Movement in America.  By the 1870s, his chairs were sought after by many Americans as accent pieces for their parlors. The woven mesh or upholstery of these innovative chairs follows the original intention of the maker and the turned frame has an avant-garde, colorful and rather contemporary feeling painted in a combination of a rich ochre yellow and cobalt blue, a color combo that was highly prized for it’s eccentricity in Victorian America.