POSSIBLY BY THE ST. MARTIN'S LANE SYNDICATE, CIRCA 1745, AND ADAPTED FROM A CHAIR-BACK SOFA

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A GEORGE II WALNUT ARMCHAIR
POSSIBLY BY THE ST. MARTIN'S LANE SYNDICATE, CIRCA 1745, AND ADAPTED FROM A CHAIR-BACK SOFA
With ruffle and shell-carved cresting above a pierced interlaced splat, with foliate carved arms

Provenance

The Property of a Gentleman; Sotheby & Co., London, 25 July 1969, lot 98 (480 to Patch).
The Property of a Lady; Sotheby & Co., London, 19 July 1974, lot 104.

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Lot Essay

The maker of this chair would have supplied a similar set comprising at least twenty-four chairs to Sir George Savile, 7th Bt. (d. 1743) for Rufford Abbey, Nottinghamshire (one of which is now on public view in the Noel Terry collection at Fairfax House, York (see P. Brown, ed., The Noel Terry Collection of Furniture & Clocks, London, 1987, no. 53).

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