A Regency mahogany patent metamorphic library step armchair

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A Regency mahogany patent metamorphic library step armchair
After a design by Morgan and Saunders, with curved uprights and channelled moulded curved bar top-rail and reeded horizontal splat with scroll arm supports, having a button-down leather cushion and solid seat opening to reveal tooled green leather treads, on sabre legs with restoration and renewed parts
34¼in. (87cm.) high, 24in. (61cm.) wide, 23in. (58.5cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

With similarities to a Regency combined library chair and steps or 'Patent Metamorphic Library Chair' made by Morgan and Saunders, Catherine Street, Strand, illustrated in Ackermann's Repository of Arts July, 1811 plate 29.

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