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AN OAK LIBRARY READING CHAIR
carved with foliate scrolls and paterae, the padded U-shaped back with a guilloche frieze and fitted behind with two hinged drawers and dished candle branches, on a solid splat centred by a basket weave oval panel between foliate-carved stiles, the reverse with a hinged racheted adjustable reading slope operated on a spring catch with a drawer below, the oval padded seat on four scroll and a central support terminating in foliate feet, German, late 19th century
carved with foliate scrolls and paterae, the padded U-shaped back with a guilloche frieze and fitted behind with two hinged drawers and dished candle branches, on a solid splat centred by a basket weave oval panel between foliate-carved stiles, the reverse with a hinged racheted adjustable reading slope operated on a spring catch with a drawer below, the oval padded seat on four scroll and a central support terminating in foliate feet, German, late 19th century