Lot 127
127
A SCOTTISH REGENCY MAHOGANY SOFA TABLE attributed to William Trotter, the rounded rectangular twin-flap top crossbanded in rosewood and inlaid with a boxwood and ebonised line, with one ash-lined frieze drawer and one simulated drawer to each side, on four scrolled central supports with flowerhead-terminals and a concave-sided rectangular platform base, on reeded downswept legs with brass caps and castors

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A SCOTTISH REGENCY MAHOGANY SOFA TABLE attributed to William Trotter, the rounded rectangular twin-flap top crossbanded in rosewood and inlaid with a boxwood and ebonised line, with one ash-lined frieze drawer and one simulated drawer to each side, on four scrolled central supports with flowerhead-terminals and a concave-sided rectangular platform base, on reeded downswept legs with brass caps and castors
65in. (165cm.) wide, open; 29in. (73.5cm.) high; 26in. (66cm.) deep

Lot Essay

The distinctively-rounded flowerheads that serve as terminals for the scrolled quadripartite supports correspond to those on a rosewood stand for a display-case that William Trotter supplied to Paxton, Berwickshire, in 1815. The ash-lined frieze drawer supports a Scottish origin (see: F. Bamford, 'A Dictionary of Edinburgh Wrights and Furniture Makers', Furniture History, 1983, pl. 58)
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