Lot Essay
The design for this library reading chair was invented by Morgan and Saunders, illustrated in Ackermann's Repository of Arts, September 1810, plate 19.
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Details
A George III mahogany library reading chair
In the manner of Morgan and Saunders, with a curved top-rail and sliding rest with ratcheted adjustable book slope and fitted with pen drawers to either side, the back with pierced slatted splat and ogee re-entrant spandrels, with stuff-over balloon-shaped seat, on ring-turned tapering legs with brass caps and castors
In the manner of Morgan and Saunders, with a curved top-rail and sliding rest with ratcheted adjustable book slope and fitted with pen drawers to either side, the back with pierced slatted splat and ogee re-entrant spandrels, with stuff-over balloon-shaped seat, on ring-turned tapering legs with brass caps and castors
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