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Each with a shaped padded back, partially padded arms with channeled downswept supports, supported on cabriole legs headed by carved shells issuing acanthus leaves and terminating in ball-and-claw feet, formerly with castors, one with Bonham's sale sticker inscribed 2469 / 3473
40 in. (101.6 cm.) high, 32 in. (81.3 cm.) wide, 32 in. (81.3 cm.) deep
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This legs on this pair of armchairs closely relate to those on a pair of bergeres and a settee from a California Estate sold Christie's, New York, 23 October 2002, lots 157-158 which were reputedly supplied to the Rt. Hon. Lord Clive for Walcot, Lydbury North, Shropshire. They also compare closely to a suite of seat-furniture supplied by cabinet-maker William Hallett (d.1781) for Arthur, 6th Viscount Irwin in 1735 for his London house. The suite, comprising twelve chairs and a settee were removed to his country seat, Temple Newsam in Yorkshire, where they remained until the 1922 sale. The Hallett suite, for which the invoice survives in the Temple Newsam archives, was executed in walnut and featured ring-turned ankles. The suite was later sold, the property of a Gentleman, Christie's London, 29 June 1978, lot 19.

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