An extremely rare and important mid 18th century white and green painted lime wood armchair attributed to Thomas Chippendale, having a serpentine shaped crest rail with acanthus leaf carving and Gothic paterae, above a Gothic back segmented into six triangles with wavy flower petals joined to a circular flower decorated centre, with outswept leaf carved arms on downswept moulded supports, and having a drop-in seat upholstered in green silk velvet, with plain frieze with astragal moulding on square tapering legs with waisted collar and trefoil field, terminating in block feet.
Note:  The design for this chair is a variant of plate XXV in Thomas Chippendale's The Gentleman and Cabinet-maker's Director for the back design and the leg. The arm derives from plate XVII. 
Note: Paint decoration refreshed where necessary.