A REGENCY MAHOGANY EXTENDING DINING TABLEBY MORGAN AND SANDERS, CIRCA 1815The inscribed end handle titled 'Patent, Morgan & Sanders, Inventors & Manufacturers, 16 & 17 Catherine Street, Strand, London', with three additional leaf insertions76cm high, 123cm wide, 305cm long (when fully extended)For a related extending dining table by Morgan & Sanders and formerly part of the Norman Adams collection incorporating a near identical engraved handle see Christopher Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, Furniture History Society and W. S. Maney and Sons Ltd, 1996, page 345, figures 666 and 667. For another dining table by Morgan and Sanders and bearing similarly engraved makers plates/ handles, see Christie's, London, Important English Furniture & Clocks, 4th June 2009, Lot 10 (£20,000). Much is known about the business of Morgan & Sanders because of their involvement with Rudolph Ackermann, print seller, art dealer and publisher of the Strand. For his monthly periodical 'The Repository of Arts' they supplied a succession of furniture designs which were published between 1809 and 1815. They had by this date named their premises 'Trafalgar House' to capitalize on the death of the naval hero Lord Nelson for whom they were providing furniture for his house at Merton, Surrey in 1805. The partner's claim to have supplied furniture to Nelson is supported by a payment of £549 in 1810 to Morgan & Co, from money provided by the Marquess of Queensbury to clear part of the debts of Lady Hamilton who had inherited Nelson's house at Merton. In the Repository of February 1810 the partners claimed to have supplied their Pitt's Globe Writing Table to the Royal family and the illustration used by Ackermann was said to be based on one ordered by the Princess Augusta. Thomas Morgan also claimed that whilst in Butler's employ he had visited Buckingham House and showed a model of his Imperial Dining Table to the King, Queen and other members of the Royal Family.