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AN EMPIRE MAHOGANY AND PARCEL-GILT METAMORPHIC LIBRARY ARMCHAIR
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF NELSON GRIMALDI SEABRA (Lots 279-281)
AN EMPIRE MAHOGANY AND PARCEL-GILT METAMORPHIC LIBRARY ARMCHAIR

AFTER THE ENGLISH DESIGN BY MORGAN AND SAUNDERS, FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY

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AN EMPIRE MAHOGANY AND PARCEL-GILT METAMORPHIC LIBRARY ARMCHAIR
AFTER THE ENGLISH DESIGN BY MORGAN AND SAUNDERS, FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY
The padded back and seat covered in close-nailed gilt-tooled green leather covers, the banded reeded toprail and scrolled arms with dolphin terminals above the with conforming seat-rail and on sabre legs, converting to steps, the hinges replaced, later gilding

拍品專文

The form of this metamorphic armchair/library steps (fauteuil en escabeau) is based on a design by the Catherine Street firm of Morgan and Sanders first published in Ackermann's Repository of the Arts in July 1811 (P. Agius, Ackermann's Regency Furniture and Interiors, Marlborough, 1984, p. 60, pl. 29). This chair was 'considered the best and handsomest article ever yet invented, where two complete pieces of furniture are combined in one - an elegant and truly comfortable armchair and a set of library steps'.