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A Mahogany Reading Chair After a design by Thomas Sheraton
A Mahogany Reading Chair After a design by Thomas Sheraton
Dimensions: H: 36 in / 90 cm | W: 32 in / 80 cm | D: 24 in / 60 cm
PRICE: $37,200
A Mahogany Reading Chair
After a design by Thomas Sheraton
Of most striking design, the mahogany chair with its original leather upholstery has caster-shod tapering and turned front legs with saber legs to the rear. The bowfront seat is cushioned and has an inclined back, the padded arms are of horseshoe design and incorporate a concealed swinging drawer for writing equipment, the hinged reading book rest is inset with gilt-tooled leather.
Circa 1805
This type of chair is illustrated in Thomas Sheraton’s “The cabinet-maker and upholsterer's drawing-book” of 1803. Sheraton comments on the design saying the chair was intended “to make the exercise (of reading) easy, and for the convenience of taking down a note or quotation from any subject.”
This particular design was made as early as the first quarter of the 18th century and was custom-made for handful of clients throughout the 18th- and 19th-centuries by firms such as Gillows and Marsh & Tatham. An early example is in the Victoria & Albert Museum (W.47:1-1948), while a model of similar age to the Butchoff example is in the Royal Collection (RCIN 45104). A similar chair can be seen in the library at Tatton Park, in Cheshire, most likely supplied by Gillows.
Sheraton, Thomas. The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing-Book. London: Printed for the author, by T. Bensley; and sold by J. Mathews, No 18, Strand; G. Terry, No 54, Paternoster-Row; and J.S. Jordan, No 166, Fleet-Street, 1803, plate 5.
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