A GEORGE IV MAHOGANY READING CHAIR

CIRCA 1820-30

Details

A GEORGE IV MAHOGANY READING CHAIR
CIRCA 1820-30
With a u-shaped back, the padded seat, back and arms covered in tan leather on turned tapering legs
28½ in. (72.5 cm.) high; 31 in. (79 cm.) wide; 22½ in. (57 cm.) wide

Literature

C. Hussey, 'Avenue House, Ampthill, Bedfordshire, The Residence of Prof. A.E. Richardson, F.S.A., F.R.I.B.A.', Country Life, 8 December 1934, p. 617, illustrated in 'The Morning Room'.
'A Treasure House of Antiquities, English Country Life in the Eighteenth Century, Candles that light one to another age', The Luton News, 15 August 1935, p. 13.

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Lot Essay

This reading chair is derived from a Gillows design of 1794 (L. Boynton, Gillow Furniture Designs 1760-1800, Royston, 1995, pl. 246), however this later version is perhaps more closely related to the designs for 'Library Reading Chairs' published in Ackermann's Repository of Arts, September 1810. The design features the distinctive eared arms and balloon-shaped seat, which the caption states was 'in a great sale at the warehouse of the inventors Messrs, Morgan and Saunders, Catherine-street, Strand' (P. Agius. Ackermann's Regency Furniture and Interiors, Marlborough, 1984, p.54).

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