BY JAMES AND MATHEW MORISON OF EDINBURGH AND AYR, ALMOST CERTAINLY SUPPLIED BETWEEN 28TH JANUARY AND 9TH JUNE 1824

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A PAIR OF SCOTTISH GEORGE IV ROSEWOOD SOFAS
BY JAMES AND MATHEW MORISON OF EDINBURGH AND AYR, ALMOST CERTAINLY SUPPLIED BETWEEN 28TH JANUARY AND 9TH JUNE 1824
Each with lotus carved legs with differing caps and castors, one castor missing
90 in. (229 cm.) wide; 35 in. (89 cm.) deep (2)

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Lot Essay

Almost certainly the two sofas recorded by Sir David Hunter Blair in a Memorandum, Ayr, January 28th (1824), 'Ordered us the following... 1 Sopha like Blythswood (June 9th ordered another Sopha) £7.10.0.' (Blairquhan Archive).

These elegant rosewood sofas, with Grecian-scrolled arms, would have been supplied to stand out from the Drawing Room fireplace in company with a sofa-table. Their pattern is clearly taken from one supplied by M. Morison & Son for Blythswood House, Renfrewshire, a Grecian villa designed in 1818 by James Gillespie Graham (1855) for Major Archibald Campbell.

The sofas may have been supplied en suite with the sofa-table (lot 48).

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