Lot 144
144
A CHINESE-EXPORT SOLID PADOUK ARMCHAIR
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A CHINESE-EXPORT SOLID PADOUK ARMCHAIR

AFTER A DESIGN BY MORGAN & SANDERS, CIRCA 1810

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A CHINESE-EXPORT SOLID PADOUK ARMCHAIR
AFTER A DESIGN BY MORGAN & SANDERS, CIRCA 1810
The yoke-shaped toprail above a pierced vertical splat and ogee seat covered in buttoned pale green suede, on reeded tapering legs, with later brass castors
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Lot Essay

This type of 'Library Reading Chair', was invented by the Strand cabinet-makers, Messrs. Morgan and Sanders (R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, September 1810, pl. 19). The pattern shows the chair with a moveable book-rest. It was described as one of 'the most convenient and comfortable library chairs perhaps ever completed' (P. Agius, Ackermann's Regency Furniture & Interiors, London, 1984, p. 54). A padouk armchair of this pattern was sold anonymously, in Christie's London, 5 November 1992, lot 76.

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