Lot Essay
A related George I reading-chair belonged to the poet John Gay (illustrated in The Builder, March 1878; and R. Edwards, The Shorter Dictionary of English Furniture, London, 1977, p.169, fig. 1).
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A GEORGE I WALNUT READING-CHAIR
With padded yoke-shaped toprail, rectangular back and bowed seat covered in close-nailed brown leather, the toprail with a later ratcheted reading-slope and two later pen-trays, on club legs joined by a turned H-shaped stretcher, on pad feet, the back feet and the stretcher spliced, inscribed in chalk on the underside '153458'
With padded yoke-shaped toprail, rectangular back and bowed seat covered in close-nailed brown leather, the toprail with a later ratcheted reading-slope and two later pen-trays, on club legs joined by a turned H-shaped stretcher, on pad feet, the back feet and the stretcher spliced, inscribed in chalk on the underside '153458'
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