Lot 112
112
A SCOTTISH REGENCY MAHOGANY SOFA
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A SCOTTISH REGENCY MAHOGANY SOFA

IN THE MANNER OF WILLIAM TROTTER, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A SCOTTISH REGENCY MAHOGANY SOFA
IN THE MANNER OF WILLIAM TROTTER, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The waved padded back, sides, seat cushion and two bolsters covered in red velvet, with spirally-reeded front, on short lion legs with paw feet and sunk castors
37¼ in. (95 cm.) high; 90½ in. (230 cm.) wide; 29 in. (74 cm.) deep
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Lot Essay

Thomas Sheraton illustrated a related 'Grecian Squab' sofa with palm-wrapped bacchic lion monopodia in his Cabinet Dictionary, 1803 (pl. 49). A closely related sofa, with cable-wrapped frame, was offered at Sotheby's, New York, 17 May 2002, lot 272. Such cabling was also adopted by the Edinburgh cabinet-maker, William Trotter, for 'Grecian' rosewood furniture supplied for Paxton House, Berwickshire (F. Bamford, A Dictionary of Edinburgh Wrights and Furniture-Makers, 1983, pl. 55a).

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