IN THE MANNER OF WILLIAM TROTTER, FIRST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

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A REGENCY ROSEWOOD CIRCULAR BREAKFAST TABLE
IN THE MANNER OF WILLIAM TROTTER, FIRST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
The tilt top with a beaded frieze, on a panelled tricorn pedestal and similar platform base with scrolled lotus carved and reeded feet with reeded buns and inset castors, with chalk inscription to the underside EDINBURGH 4 FORTINGALL
29in. (73cm.) high, 51in. (130cm.) diameter

Provenance

Acquired privately from a property in Heriot Row, Edinburgh

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Lot Essay

The drawing room 'loo' centre-table in 'Grecian' black-figured rosewood is supported on a tripod-altar pedestal in the French antique manner popularised by T.Hope's Household Furniture annd Interior Decoration, 1807 (pl.39), while it's castors are concealed in reeded spheres in the Louis Quatorze 'boulle' manner adopted for some rosewood furniture supplied for Paxton House, Scotland in 1814 by the Edinburgh cabinet-maker William Trotter (F.Bamford, A Dictionary of Edinburgh Wrights and Furniture Makers, 1660 - 1840, Leeds, 1983, pls.54B, 55B and 56).

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