Live Auction 5974The Sunday Sale - Property from the Academy of Medical Sciences, removed from 41 Portland Place, W1 and The Robert Harling Collection
Lot 32

A REGENCY MAHOGANY METAMORPHIC LIBRARY ARMCHAIR

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

Closed13 September 2009

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GBP 3,000

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY METAMORPHIC LIBRARY ARMCHAIR
AFTER A DESIGN BY MORGAN AND SANDERS, EARLY 19TH CENTURY, THE TOPRAIL ASSOCIATED
Reeded overall, the curved tablet toprail above a horizontal splat and scrolled arms, with caned seat and on sabre legs with later brass caps and castors
35½ in. (90 cm.) high; 23 in. (58 cm.) wide; 21 in. (53 cm.) deep

Supplied by Green & Abbott Ltd., Wigmore Street, London November 1950 for £36.

Specialist note

This ingenious Grecian-scrolled chair, with Egyptian reed enrichments in the manner promoted by the architect Sir John Soane. Intended for squab-cushion upholstery, it relates to a metamorphic chair pattern invented by the Strand cabinet-makers Messrs Morgan and Sanders, and illustrated in R. Ackermanns, Repository of Arts, 1811, where it was described as providing an elegant and truly comfortable armchairs and a set of library steps.