An Italian walnut hall chair, the arched back carved with a Medieval helmet flanked by griffins above a rectangular splat with central circular portrait bust flanked by winged griffins, the tooled and painted leather seat worked with a shield and armour surmounted by a crown within a shaped rectangular cartouche enclosed by scrolling foliage, the rectangular armrests carved with stylised anthemions, on imbricated square supports joined by a shaped stretcher, 19th Century