A SCOTTISH GEORGE IV MAHOGANY BOWFRONT SERVING-TABLE

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WILLIAM TROTTER - EDINBURGH CABINET-MAKER The following three lots share features often associated with the Edinburgh cabinet-maker William Trotter. Trotter was descended from a long line of merchants, upholsterers and cabinet-makers and ceased trading as Young & Trotter in 1805, continuing in 5 Princes Street as sole proprietor. Among his important commissions and one which is well documented, is the furniture he supplied for the Library and Gallery at Paxton House, Berwickshire, circa 1814, (F. Bamford, A Dictionary of Edinburgh Wrights & Furniture Makers, 1660-1840, 1983, plates 49-61). The furniture at Paxton is strongly characterised by the use of gadrooned mouldings; however he also supplied furniture of a more restrained nature, along the lines of the London cabinet-makers, to other establishments such as The Speculative Society's room, Edinburgh University in about 1822, (ibid. pl. 63) and Dun House in Angus, in 1828 (H. Montgomery-Massingbird and C. Simon Sykes, Great Houses of Scotland, 1997, p. 160-171). THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

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A SCOTTISH GEORGE IV MAHOGANY BOWFRONT SERVING-TABLE
The shaped rectangular top with three-quarter gallery centred by a panel issuing scrolling palms, above two long and one short panelled ash-lined frieze drawers, on scrolled reeded front legs and turned baluster rear legs
44½ in. (113 cm.) high; 78½ in. (199.5 cm.) wide; 23½ in. (59.5 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

Characteristic of work by the renowned Scottish cabinet-maker, William Trotter are the sunk panels edged with beading that are featured on the frieze drawers of this serving-table. The reeded scrolled front legs relate to a pair of side table frames supplied to George Home for Paxton House, Berwickshire, by William Trotter in 1814 at a cost of £20.15.0 each (F. Bamford, A Dictionary of Edinburgh Furniture Makers, Leeds, 1983, p. 121 and plate 54A). A sideboard with similar scrolled carved cresting and with sunk panels with beaded edges, labelled by the Edinburgh upholsterer Robert Cooper was sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 3 December 1987, lot 197.

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