A Large Mid-19thC Oak & Red Morocco Leather Library Armchair c.1850; Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire sub-Art & Sculpture all providing a warm snapshot

all providing a warm snapshot of normal provincial life over a hundred years ago

aimed at restaurant and hotel chefs

but it does not come into general use until the 14th century

The condition of the bust is simply wonderfully decorative with the original paint having worn off in several areas and with the whole now of a beautiful sea green grey colour overall and with the piece not having any restoration or over-painting

is partially bald

A Large Mid-19thC Oak & Red Morocco Leather Library Armchair c.1850; Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire sub-Art & Sculpture all providing a warm snapshotOrigin: English Period: Early Victorian Provenance: Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire Date: c. 1850 Height: 35 Width: 36 Depth: 39 The oversized and extremely comfortable and supple red morocco leather armchair with a slanting back to tubular gilled arms to turned oak legs with brass castors, surviving from the middle of the nineteenth century and having been removed from Fonthill Abbey, Wilshire, England. In beautifully worn, country house order, the chair