CIRCA 1820-25, ATTRIBUTED TO JAMES AND MATHEW MORISON OF EDINBURGH AND AYR

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A PAIR OF SCOTTISH GEORGE IV MAHOGANY ARMCHAIRS
CIRCA 1820-25, ATTRIBUTED TO JAMES AND MATHEW MORISON OF EDINBURGH AND AYR
Each with reeded frame and red leather padded back, arms and squab cushion above a caned seat on lotus carved legs, with later castors stamped 'Hamptons & Co.', one chair lacking castors on both back legs, the legs reduced in height (2)

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Lot Essay

These robust fireside easy chairs, with their Egyptian lotus-flowered pillars and reeded tablet crests, would have been commissioned en suite with the dining chairs recorded by Sir David Hunter Blair in 1820, and probably manufactured by M. Morison & Son of Ayr.

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