A GEORGE I GRAINED X-FRAME CHAIR, the padded arched rectangular back and seat covered in needlework centred by the Grosvenor crest of a garb or, below a marquess' coronet and within the Garter motto HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE, on X-shaped legs, redecorated in the 19th Century

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A GEORGE I GRAINED X-FRAME CHAIR, the padded arched rectangular back and seat covered in needlework centred by the Grosvenor crest of a garb or, below a marquess' coronet and within the Garter motto HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE, on X-shaped legs, redecorated in the 19th Century
Provenance
The 2nd Marquess of Westminster, who succeeded his father in 1845 and who was the only Grosvenor to have been a Knight of the Garter while a Marquess
Thence by descent to the 6th Duke of Westminster, Eaton Hall, Cheshire, sold Sotheby's house sale, 21 September 1992, lot 227

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