Lot Essay
Whytock & Reid of Edinburgh were the principal Edinburgh cabinetmakers of the late 19th century and early 20th century, much of whose best furniture was designed by Robert Lorimer.
Details
A mahogany pedestal desk, early 20th century
with a rectangular moulded breakfront top with an inset green, gilt, tooled leather panel, the frieze fitted with a drawer to the kneehole, flanked on one side by a writing slide above four graduated drawers and on the other by a writing slide above three various sized drawers, each pedestal with a cupboard door to the reverse enclosing two deep drawers on ogee bracket feet, stamped WHYTOCK & REID OF EDINBURGH -- 66in. (168cm.) wide, 30½in. (77.5cm.) high, 42in. (107cm.) deep
with a rectangular moulded breakfront top with an inset green, gilt, tooled leather panel, the frieze fitted with a drawer to the kneehole, flanked on one side by a writing slide above four graduated drawers and on the other by a writing slide above three various sized drawers, each pedestal with a cupboard door to the reverse enclosing two deep drawers on ogee bracket feet, stamped WHYTOCK & REID OF EDINBURGH -- 66in. (168cm.) wide, 30½in. (77.5cm.) high, 42in. (107cm.) deep
Special notice
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Further details
Whytick & Reid were the principal cabinet makers of Edinburgh in the last years of the 19th Century.