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MACKINNON FINE FURNITURE
A WILLIAM AND MARY WALNUT WING CHAIR England, circa 1690
A very fine William and Mary walnut wing armchair of lovely colour. With outscrolled arms and baluster front legs joined by a stretcher, upholstered in magnificent nineteenth century Genoese green and gold cut-velvet, with restorations.
Provenance The collection of Irwin Untermyer By whom bequested to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1964 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Literature Y. Hackenbroch, English Furniture with Some Furniture from Other Countries in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1958, pl. 46, fig. 69. Height: 54 in (137.2 cm) Width: 34 in (86.4 cm) Depth: 28 in (71.1 cm)
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