AFTER A DESIGN BY MORGAN & SANDERS

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY METAMORPHIC LIBRARY ARMCHAIR
After a design by Morgan & Sanders
The curved panelled tablet toprail above a horizontal splat and downscrolled arms, caned seat and reeded rounded frontrail, the hinged seat enclosing four red leather-lined steps
30 in. (76 cm.) high, open

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Lot Essay

The design of this metamorphic armchair library steps corresponds very closely to the design first published in Ackermann's Repository of Arts, in July 1811 and captioned 'This ingenious piece of furniture is manufactured at Messrs. Morgan and Sanders's, Catherine-St. Strand' (P. Agius, Ackermann's Regency Furniture & Interiors, Marlborough, 1984, p. 60, pl. 29). This chair was 'considered the best and handsomest article ever yet invented, where two complete pieces of furniture are combined in one - an elegant and truly comfortable armchair and a set of library steps'.
A closely related metamorphic armchair was sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 6 April 2000, lot 75.

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