Lot Essay
A similar Etruscan-black armchair with gilt enrichments was sold anonymously in these Rooms, 26 February 1981, lot 26, while another pair were advertised by Stair & Company in the Grosvenor House Antiques Fair catalogue in 1989. A similar chair, with voluted scrolls in place of the leopardess masks, was acquired by the Victoria & Albert Museum in 1931 (R. Edwards, A History of the English Chair, London, 1951, fig.117, inv. no. W.11-1931).