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Tuesday 11th October

to a design by Morgan and Sanders, with reeded rail back and

scroll armrests, loose squab cushion and raised on sabre legs.

€ 6,000 - 8,000

The present armchair is based on a design published by

the firm of Morgan and Sanders in Rudolph Ackermann’s

Repository of Art

in July 1811 where it is described as the

‘best and handsomest article ever invented, where two

complete pieces of furniture are combined in one – an

elegant and truly comfortable armchair and a set of

library steps’.

Morgan and Sanders were specialists in the manufacture

of ‘metamorphic’ furniture of this kind and held the pat-

ent for this particular model, which was known as ‘Patent

Metamorphic Library Chair’ (cf. G. Bernard Hughes,

‘

Regency Patent Furniture

’., Country Life, 2 January 1958,

pp.10-12, and Brian Austen, ‘

Morgan and Sanders and the

Patent Furniture Makers of Catherine Street

.’ Coinnoisseur,

Vol.187, No.753, November 1974, pp.180-191).