Each with drop-in seat covered in gold crushed velvet, the square tapering legs with brass sabots, the pierced backs centred by an entwined serpent, one with partial German label
Each 33¹⁄₂ in. (85 cm.) high; 17 in. (43.5 cm.) wide; 16 in. (41 cm.) deep

Probably Colonel and Mrs Leonard Messel at 104 Lancaster Gate, London or Nymans, Sussex, and by descent to Oliver Messel.
With Oliver Messel at 17-19 Pelham Place, London, and by descent to Lord Snowdon.

R. Muir, ‘Double Exposure: Lord Snowdon’s Kensington Villa’, World of Interiors, January 2009, p. 147, illustrated in the entrance hall

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