Shield-Back Armchair (one of a pair)
c. 1790
Artists
Dimensions
97 × 53 × 55 cm (38 3/16 × 20 7/8 × 21 5/8 in.)
Provenance
[Norman Adams, London], sold; to Horace W. Brock, Gloucester, 1991
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