Lot Essay
The spindle-back chair was made fashionable for garden summer houses and banqueting rooms by William Chambers' Design of Chinese Buildings, 1757 but the elegant form of these herm-footed chairs relates to a pattern illustrated in Thomas Sheraton's Cabinet Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing Book, 1793. In view of their provenance and relationship to the spindled and Chinese-fretted chairs attributed to Messrs Young, Hamilton and Trotter, it is possible this set was executed in Edinburgh.