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A GEORGE II WALNUT ARMCHAIR
CIRCA 1730
With curved toprail and solid splat above foliate-carved scrolled arms, the seat covered in 18th century petit point needlework, on shell-carved legs, large patches of veneer replaced to cresting and back splats, reshaped front rail, feet probably later carved
Provenance
Alexander Smith Cochran (d. 1929), Yonkers, New York.
Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964.
Literature
Y. Hackenbroch, English Furniture with some furniture from other countries in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1958, pl. 70-71, figs. 93-94, p. 22.

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