POSSIBLY BY WILLIAM TROTTER, WITH INSCRIPTION DATED 1818

This Grecian-form bench was popularized by Messrs. Morgan and Saunders of Trafalgar House, Catherine Street, and a related window seat by these makers is illusterated in R. Ackermann, The Repository of Arts, London, 1809 (see P. Agius, Ackermann's Regency Furniture and Interiors, London, 1984, p.39). A virtually identical window seat, differing only in the central ornament, and with provenance from Glendoick House, Perthshire, Scotland, was sold, the property of a Lady, Christie's London, 11 April 1991, lot 45 (£3,080). In view of its provenance and similarities to documented furniture provided for Paxton House in 1814, that seat was thought to be by the famous Edinburgh firm of William Trotter (d.1834) of Princes Street (see F. Bamford, ed., 'Dictionary of Edinburgh Furniture Makers', Furniture History, 1983, pl.52a-59).