A George II style mahogany and upholstered armchair circa 1900

with claw and ball front feet and outswept rear legs

Upholsterey in good order. Very impressive copy and ready to place, Minor old marks, chips and scratches.
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Long recognised as a classic in the history of English furniture this chair is inspired and derived from a famous pair in the collection at Chatsworth, Derbyshire and to a similar chair formerly in the collection of The Earl of Strathmore and now in the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. See Gloag et al, English Furniture; The Urwin Untermyer Collection, London, 1958, pl. 84. So highly was the form regarded that the great late 19th and early 20th century copyists and decorators Lenygon & Co., produced a model which was of the very highest quality. It could be that the offered lot is one of those Lenygon's reproduced. See Francis Lenygon, The Decoration And Furniture of English Mansions During The XVII. & XVII Centuries, London, 1907, pl. 29.