A PAIR OF ITALIAN WALNUT AND PARCEL GILT ARMCHAIRSEARLY 18TH CENTURYWith later red velvet upholsteryEach 125cm high, 65cm wide, 664cm deep;Together with a red velvet upholstered walnut armchair, early 18th century, 106cm high, 56cm wide, 50cm deep, and a red velvet and metallic thread embroidered kneeler, 48cm wideProvenance: Formerly the Messel family collection in the Great Hall and Garden Hall at Nymans Removed to Holmstead Manor in 1947 after the disastrous fire and thence by descent to Oliver Messel Supplied by Oliver Messel to Frederick and Phyllis Watkins for Flaxley AbbeyIllustrated:'Nymans-II, Sussex: The Residence of Lieut.-Colonel Leonard Messel', Country Life, 17 September 1932, The Great Hall