MID-18TH CENTURY

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A GEORGE III WALNUT LIBRARY ARMCHAIR
MID-18TH CENTURY
The rectangular padded back and seat covered in coral and aubergine floral silk damask, with padded arms and downswept supports, on square legs joined by stretchers, on brass anti-friction castors, the back seat rail and rear stretcher replaced

Provenance

The Townley-Balfour family, Townley Hall, Co. Louth, and by descent.

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Lot Essay

This broad easy-chair for drawing-room or library is likely to have been amongst the furnishings commissioned in the mid-18th century by Blayney Townley-Balfour (d. 1788) and retained for the new mansion Townley Hall, which was built by his grandson in the 1790s. Blayney Townley-Balfour (d. 1788) was an avid collector of art, who confessed in his diary to furniture purchases in one particular year 'to my sorrow and shame I have spent £1,000' (C. Hussey, 'Treasures of Townley Hall, Ireland’, Country Life, 26 November 1948, p. 1104).

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