CIRCA 1810-1815

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY, ROSEWOOD AND EBONISED REVOLVING BOOKCASE
CIRCA 1810-1815
Each independently revolving graduated tier faced with leather bindings, the turned column on three downswept legs with brass lion's paw caps and castors, losses and old replacements to the bindings, possibly originally with a finial to top
60 in. (152 cm.) high; 28 in. (71 cm.) diameter

Provenance

Probably acquired by Sir James Montgomery 2nd Bt., for Stobo Castle, Peeblesshire, and by descent at Stobo and Kinross.

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Lot Essay

A design for a 'circular movable bookcase' under the patent of the Catherine-Street makers Morgan and Saunders was published in Rudolph Ackermann's The Repository of Arts in 1810 (reproduced in P. Agius, ed., Ackermann's Regency Furniture and Interiors, Wiltshire, 1984, p. 48, pl. 13). According to Ackermann, this 'ingenious and elegant contrivance', derived from the form of dumbwaiters, affords some 'valuable conveniences'.
A closely related four-tier library table is illustrated in M. Jourdain, Regency Furniture 1795-1830, rev. ed., London, 1965, p. 83, fig. 197. A near identical example was sold, Sotheby's London, 20 November 2007, lot 161.

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