AN EDWARDIAN MAHOGANY SOFA BY HOWARD & SONS, IN GEORGE II STYLE, EARLY 20TH CENTURY with scroll arms, and siege de duvet upholstery, on shell and leaf carved cabriole legs and claw and ball feet, with later iron castors, stamped '18227 7231 Howard & Sons Berners St.' and with a printed paper label on one of the bearers numbered in pencil '11364 2678' 89.2cm high, 194cm wide, 88cm deep Provenance Lionel de Rothschild (1882-1942) Edmund de Rothschild (1916-2009) The Trustees of Exbury House

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