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AN ITALIAN WALNUT AND PARCEL-GILT ARMCHAIR
The rectangular back and padded seat covered in associated 17th Century Flemish tapestry woven in wools and silks, depicting a courtly couple before a garden landscape within a strapwork cartouche surmouned by two armorial busts, the seat with a grotesque figure within foliate scrolls, the uprights headed by a scroll with a spread eagle above a lion's head and the moulded rectangular arms above baluster supports and conforming legs with a strapwork and palmette show-stretcher and with low stretchers fronted by claw feet, basically 17th Century, restorations
The rectangular back and padded seat covered in associated 17th Century Flemish tapestry woven in wools and silks, depicting a courtly couple before a garden landscape within a strapwork cartouche surmouned by two armorial busts, the seat with a grotesque figure within foliate scrolls, the uprights headed by a scroll with a spread eagle above a lion's head and the moulded rectangular arms above baluster supports and conforming legs with a strapwork and palmette show-stretcher and with low stretchers fronted by claw feet, basically 17th Century, restorations