A SET OF THREE ITALIAN WALNUT AND PARCEL GILT ARMCHAIRSLATE 17TH OR EARLY 18TH CENTURYWith later red velvet upholsteryEach 128cm high, 70cm wide, 63cm deep Provenance: Formerly the Messel family collection in the Long Drawing Room at Nymans Removed to Holmstead Manor in 1947 after the disastrous fire and thence by descent to Oliver Messel Purchased from Oliver Messel by Frederick and Phyllis Watkins for Flaxley AbbeyIllustrated:'Nymans-II, Sussex: The Residence of Lieut.-Colonel Leonard Messel', Country Life, 17 September 1932, The Long Drawing Room