EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY READING-CHAIR
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
With yoke-shaped padded toprail covered in green leather and with pen-tray in one arm with swing-cover and adjustable movable reading-slope, above an open splat and removable padded seat covered in green leather, on sabre legs with brass castors, the seat-rail stamped 'H. SAMUEL 484 OXFORD ST LONDON, one back leg spliced

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Lot Essay

Thomas Sheraton noted about a related library chair pattern that it was 'intended to make the exercise of reading easy' (T. Sheraton, The Cabinet Dictionary, London, 1803, pl. 5). This type of chair was adopted by the Strand cabinet-makers Morgan and Sanders, and one of their related 'library reading chairs' featured in R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, in September 1810. The brand of H. Samuel has been recorded on a number of pieces of Georgian furniture, but his dates are not known and he is likely to have been a dealer.

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