拍品專文
The drawing room 'loo' centre-table in 'Grecian' black-figured rosewood is supported on a tripod-altar pedestal in the French antique manner popularised by T.Hope's Household Furniture annd Interior Decoration, 1807 (pl.39), while it's castors are concealed in reeded spheres in the Louis Quatorze 'boulle' manner adopted for some rosewood furniture supplied for Paxton House, Scotland in 1814 by the Edinburgh cabinet-maker William Trotter (F.Bamford, A Dictionary of Edinburgh Wrights and Furniture Makers, 1660 - 1840, Leeds, 1983, pls.54B, 55B and 56).