Lot Essay
This chair pattern, with Grecian-scrolled legs and incised tablet-rail with flowered patera, features cable or reed-twist ornaments and, as it was introduced at the time of Nelson's victory, became popularly known as a 'Trafalgar' chair. Also it may have been invented by Morgan and Sanders of the 'Trafalgar Workshops', London. Gillows of London and Lancaster, who illustrated a 'Trafalgar Pattern' chair in their 1810 Estimate Sketch Book, later referred to it as their 'Edwards' pattern, following the supply of Library chairs thought to have been executed for Pennant, the Rev. H. Holland Edward's house in Wales (see S. Sartin, Gillow Chairs and Fashion, Blackburn, 1991, p. 28).