AN EARLY VICTORIAN ROSEWOOD AND SIMULATED-ROSEWOOD LIBRARY READING-CHAIR

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AN EARLY VICTORIAN ROSEWOOD AND SIMULATED-ROSEWOOD LIBRARY READING-CHAIR
The U-shaped back, arms and seat covered in close-nailed buttoned brown leather, with adjustable book-stand on turned reeded baluster legs, brass caps and castors, the front castors stamped 'I.W.LEWTY'S PATENT' below a crown, with brass plaque to the reverse engraved 'Graf Otto Schlippenbach. Koniglicher Kammerherr.'

來源

Graf Otto Schlippenbach (1807-1888) who married as his third wife in 1861, Clara Hill (d. 1874).

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No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

拍品專文

Rudolph Ackermann (d. 1834) illustrated a 'Library Reading Chair' invented by Morgan and Saunders of Catherine Street, Strand, in his Repository of Arts, September 1810 (pl. 15, p. 182). It was described as a 'novel article', with 'circling arms' which 'form a pleasant easy back, and also, in every direction, supports for the arms.' (P. Agius, Regency Furniture and Interiors, Marlborough, 1984, p. 54, pl. 19).