ATTRIBUTED TO WILLIAM TROTTER

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A SCOTTISH REGENCY CALAMANDER BREAKFAST-TABLE
Attributed to William Trotter
The circular top with bead-and-reel carved edge above a plain frieze, on a pedestal support of four shaped uprights around a turned column, on a concave-sided square plinth, on hipped downswept legs with brass oak-leaf caps and ceramic castors, the underside with chalk monogram 'HP'
28½ in. (72.5 cm.) high; 52 in. (132 cm.) diameter

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Lot Essay

Furniture with similar sunk panels bordered by a reeded edge and on hipped legs issuing from a central pedestal base was supplied to George Home (1747-1820) for Paxton House, Berwickshire by the Edinburgh cabinet-maker William Trotter (d. 1833). The base of this breakfast-table relates to a stand in rosewood made by Trotter for Paxton in 1815 to display a ship's model of Admiral Sir David Milne's Flagship. The sunk panels on the frieze of this table relate to those on one of '4 rosewood Therms for your marble tops' (F. Bamford, A Dictionary of Edinburgh Furniture Makers, Leeds, 1983, p. 120 & pl. 59). Similar sunk panels with beaded edges feature on a rosewood circular games-table, probably made by William Trotter for the Marquess for Tweeddale at Yester House (Bamford, op. cit, pls. 72A & B).

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