ALMOST CERTAINLY SUPPLIED CIRCA 1820-1825 BY JAMES AND MATTHEW MORISON OF EDINBURGH AND AYR

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A PAIR OF SCOTTISH GEORGE IV ROSEWOOD AND BRASS POLESCREENS
ALMOST CERTAINLY SUPPLIED CIRCA 1820-1825 BY JAMES AND MATTHEW MORISON OF EDINBURGH AND AYR
One with an adjustable banner with printed cotton on lotus carved supports with triangular platforms and reeded feet, one banner lacking
55 in. (140 cm.) high (2)

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Lot Essay

Probably a pair of firescreens from '3 fire skreens at 30/. - £4.10.0' recorded by Sir David Hunter Blair on 16th May 1820 in his 'Calculation from Morison, Ayr...' (Blairquhan Archive).

The upholstered tablet screens are raised on palm-flowered pillars and hollow-sided tripod 'altar' plinths in the French antique or Grecian fashion illustrated in Rudolph Ackermann's, 1815 Repository of Arts (pl.XIV/32). These firescreens, being executed in Grecian black-figured rosewood, are likely to have been supplied by M. Morison & Son en suite with the Drawing Room sofas (lot 25).

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