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A REGENCY MAHOGANY READING-CHAIR

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY READING-CHAIR
IN THE MANNER OF MORGAN AND SANDERS

The curved moulded toprail above a pierced Gothic-arcaded splat, with cartouche-shaped padded seat covered in brass-banded black leather, on reeded turned tapering legs, brass caps and castors, restorations, lacking reading-slope

Lot Essay

A design for 'Library Reading Chairs' published in Ackermann's Repository of Arts for September 1810 includes a chair of a similar model, which the caption states was 'in a great sale at the warehouse of the inventors Messrs. Morgan and Sanders, Catherine-street, Strand' (P. Agius, Ackermann's Regency Furniture and Interiors, Marlborough, 1984, p. 54)
A similar chair is illustrated in M. Jourdain, Regency Furniture, rev. ed., 1965, fig. 83. A chair of this distinctive Gothic variation was sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 21 November 1985, lot 12

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