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These are the 'two mahogany plate warmers' listed in the Dining-Room in the 1840 Inventory
A pattern for a similar herm-shaped pedestal for a sideboard-table, the frieze inlaid with a hollow-cornered tablet, featured in Thomas Malton's, Compleat Treatise on Perspective, 2nd ed., 1778, pl. XXXIV. However, the bacchic lion-feet represent the fashionable 'antique' style of the first years of the 19th Century
The pedestal's elegant veneer and inlay relates closely to that of the wardrobe that the British Government supplied in 1796 for the Holyrood Palace apartment's of the Comte d'Artois. Although invoiced by Messrs. Young, Trotter and Hamilton, cabinet-makers of Edinburgh, there is a possibility that it was manufactured by Gillows (see F. Bamford, Dictionary of Edinburgh Furniture Makers, Leeds 1983, pl. 48
A pattern for a similar herm-shaped pedestal for a sideboard-table, the frieze inlaid with a hollow-cornered tablet, featured in Thomas Malton's, Compleat Treatise on Perspective, 2nd ed., 1778, pl. XXXIV. However, the bacchic lion-feet represent the fashionable 'antique' style of the first years of the 19th Century
The pedestal's elegant veneer and inlay relates closely to that of the wardrobe that the British Government supplied in 1796 for the Holyrood Palace apartment's of the Comte d'Artois. Although invoiced by Messrs. Young, Trotter and Hamilton, cabinet-makers of Edinburgh, there is a possibility that it was manufactured by Gillows (see F. Bamford, Dictionary of Edinburgh Furniture Makers, Leeds 1983, pl. 48