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
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