A walnut open armchair, the rectangular highback with an embroidered silk panel and surmounted by an acanthus and scroll-carved cresting above graduating pendant husks, the arms with scroll terminals and stop-fluted gadrooned supports, the drop-in seat on similar legs joined by an X-framed stretcher with central finial, on bun feet, English, late 19th century.

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A walnut open armchair, the rectangular highback with an embroidered silk panel and surmounted by an acanthus and scroll-carved cresting above graduating pendant husks, the arms with scroll terminals and stop-fluted gadrooned supports, the drop-in seat on similar legs joined by an X-framed stretcher with central finial, on bun feet, English, late 19th century.
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Provenance

The Dukes of Devonshire, presumably at Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire.

Literature

Herbert Cescinsky, English Furniture of the 18th century, London, n.d. [1911], page 33, figure 35.

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