EARLY 19TH CENTURY, AFTER A DESIGN BY MORGAN AND SANDERS

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY METAMORPHIC LIBRARY CHAIR
EARLY 19TH CENTURY, AFTER A DESIGN BY MORGAN AND SANDERS
Reeded overall, the tablet top rail carved with drapery with scrolled arms and a caned seat with leather squab cushion on sabre legs, hinged to form library steps
The chair 37 in. (94 cm.) high; 20¾ in. (53 cm.) wide; 25 in. (64 cm.) deep

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Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 12 July 1996, Lot 215.

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This metamorphic armchair corresponds very closely to the design first published in Rudolph Ackermann's Repository of Arts, July 1811 and captioned 'This ingenious piece of furniture is manufactured at Messrs. Morgan and Sanders's, Catherine-St. Strand' (P.Agius, Ackermann's Regency Furniture & Interiors, Marlborough, 1984, p.60, pl.29). The 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'.

A closely related chair, but with a plain tablet top rail, was sold anonymously Christie's, London, 20 March 2011, Lot 187 (£8,125 including premium).