A SCOTTISH REGENCY MAHOGANY BOOKCASE

IN THE MANNER OF WILLIAM TROTTER

Details

A SCOTTISH REGENCY MAHOGANY BOOKCASE
The rectangular moulded cornice above a plain frieze and four open columns of four shelves, each above a pair of pleated silk-backed panelled doors, each enclosing a shelf, flanked on each side by a panelled door enclosing a further shelf, on a plinth base, the uprights to the upper shelves with scrolled volutes, previously but not originally with doors to the upper section, lacking backboard to bottom-right cupboard
102 in. (259 cm.) high; 137 in. (348 cm.) wide; 16 in. (40.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

Edwin Coe, Solicitors, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London.

Sale room notice

This bookcase may have been reduced in depth.

Lot Essay

The pilasters' voluted and palm-flowered 'Roman' trusses reflect the antique fashion promoted by Thomas Hope's Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, London, 1807. The console-legs of pier tables designed in 1814 by the Edinburgh cabinet-maker, William Trotter, for Paxton House, Berwickshire, featured related palm-flowered volutes, and it is possible that this bookcase was also executed in Edinburgh.

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