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A GEORGE I WALNUT WING CHAIR
CIRCA 1715
Covered in 18th century gros and petit point needlework, the back depicting a couple beside a fountain, the seat with Jacob's ladder, on cabriole shell-carved legs
Provenance
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. 57, fig. 80.
Y. Hackenbroch, English and other Needlework, Tapestries and Textiles in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1960, pl. 99, fig. 137.

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