Lot Essay
A design for 'Library Reading Chairs' published in Ackermann's Repository in 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' (see: S. Jones and P. Agius, Ackermann's Regency Furniture and Interiors, 1984, p. 54). A similar chair is illustrated in M. Jourdain, Regency Furniture, rev. edn., 1965, fig. 83.