English Regency Style Mahogany Metamorphic Library Steps with Tooled Leather Top

A handsome English Regency style mahogany writing table with a gilt-tooled tobacco colored leather top. The front has 3 functioning drawers and the back has 3 matching dummy drawers....

An English Regency style mahogany drum table, the green gilt-tooled leather top above 4 functional drawers, including a divided coin drawer, resting on a reeded quadripartite base en...

An eighteenth century Sheraton period English mahogany flip top games table, the richly figured deep brown French polished top opens to reveal a gilt-tooled brown leather surface sup...

An unusual English oval writing table of large size, the gilt-tooled faded brown leather top above 4 functional and 4 false cockbeaded drawers with brass keyhole escutcheons and bail...

A fine English Regency period flip top games table, the solid mahogany top with a reeded edge above a curved base embellished with mouldings, all supported on reeded legs ending in e...

A pair of yellow metal (probably brass) bookends in the form of crouching native Americans made and signed by Jennings Bros. These are very well-modeled and nicely scaled. Signed on ...

Typical form with green leather treads and turned tapered legs.

A George III design, mahogany four-step metamorphic library coffee table, with decorative gilt incised leather top and leathered steps opening to f...

English Regency mahogany metamorphic library table/steps with hinged top & lion finial on a scrolled base. (with registry tag for J. Brodey, Bristo...

We are delighted to offer for sale this pair of large and collectable Regency style metamorphic armchair which converts into Library steps after the original 18th century design by Gillows of Lancaster with Burr Walnut panels A very good looking and well made pair, I have never seen a Regency style piece with Burr Walnut panels before, the leather seat pads have been restored by my leather polishers, they have been hand dyed six times, antiqued and sealed The period 1800-1825 was a great one for ‘patent’ or ‘metamorphic’ furniture This chair, which transforms into a short set of steps for use with bookshelves, is close to a design for a ‘Library Chair’ published in Rudolph Ackermann’s Repository of the Arts in July 1811, which was made by the London firm of Morgan and Saunders, of Catherine Street, Strand. They were well known for their ingenious furniture, including reading chairs with writing surfaces attached and a great variety of travelling beds...

Regency style solid wood library steps. Beautifully carved, three steps are supported by tapered legs and a reeded column back. Finish is a medium brown walnut stain, with patina sho...

A set of mid 20th Century mahogany library steps, consisting of four steps with each step lined with a green leather decorated with blind and gilt tooling, supported on a tall turn c...