Details
A GEORGE I GRAINED X-FRAME CHAIR, the padded arched rectangular back and seat covered in needlework centred by the Grosvenor crest of a garb or, below a marquess' coronet and within the Garter motto HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE, on X-shaped legs, redecorated in the 19th Century
Provenance
The 2nd Marquess of Westminster, who succeeded his father in 1845 and who was the only Grosvenor to have been a Knight of the Garter while a Marquess
Thence by descent to the 6th Duke of Westminster, Eaton Hall, Cheshire, sold Sotheby's house sale, 21 September 1992, lot 227
Thence by descent to the 6th Duke of Westminster, Eaton Hall, Cheshire, sold Sotheby's house sale, 21 September 1992, lot 227