A Large Mid-19thC Oak & Red Morocco Leather Library Armchair c.1850; Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire sub-Art & Sculpture One of our most iconic

One of our most iconic waterbirds

standing on a blue painted circular pedestal base

the frieze with further fretting and central stretcher

The sculpture's renown also permeated popular culture

which is a silver-coloured metal ring fitted around its ankle with the number ‘Z96362’ and the words ‘INFORM BRITISH MUSEUM NAT HIST LONDON

A Large Mid-19thC Oak & Red Morocco Leather Library Armchair c.1850; Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire sub-Art & Sculpture One of our most iconicOrigin: 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