A SCOTTISH VICTORIAN WALNUT BOOT-STAND

Details

A SCOTTISH VICTORIAN WALNUT BOOT-STAND
The pierced handle toprail with turned finials and pegs, above a scalloped tier for boots, on pierced and shaped supports joined by a stretcher, the underside with partial printed label 'From J. William Fine ...'
37 in. (94 cm.) high; 25 in. (65.5 cm.) wide; 13 in. (33 cm.) deep

Provenance

Probably Major James Rose, 23rd Laird of Kilravock (1820-1909), Kilravock Castle, Inverness-shire and by descent at Kilravock.

Lot Essay

A trestle-ended hall-stand pattern features in W.Smee & Sons, Designs for Furniture, 1850. This stand may have been manufactured in Edinburgh, and its Grecian-scrolled and fretted lyre trestles are embellished with patterae in a fashion adopted in the 1820s by William Trotter of Edinburgh (see F.Bamford, Dictionary of Edinburgh Furniture Makers, 1983, pl,51).

More from English Furniture

View All