拍品專文
Almost certainly the tables recorded by Sir David Hunter Blair on 16 May 1820 as 'Tables for 24 = £25.0.0 Calculation from Morison Ayr' (Blairquhan Archive).
The handsome dining table, with Egyptian reeded urn-capped pillars on robust arch-scrolled 'claws', was supplied en suite with the set of twenty-four chairs (lot 51) according to Sir David Hunter Blair's instruction on 16th May 1820, 'Tables for 24', and executed according to the Ayr cabinet-maker James Morison's calculation at £25 without charge being made for packing and transport.
The catches, added later, were supplied by the Birmingham brass founders James Cartland & Son, trading at Weamon Row in the 1840s.
The distinctive Scottish 'honey-pot' baluster turning of the legs is characteristic of Morison's work at Blairquhan and is shared on the side cabinet (lot 31) and dining chairs (lot 73).
The handsome dining table, with Egyptian reeded urn-capped pillars on robust arch-scrolled 'claws', was supplied en suite with the set of twenty-four chairs (lot 51) according to Sir David Hunter Blair's instruction on 16th May 1820, 'Tables for 24', and executed according to the Ayr cabinet-maker James Morison's calculation at £25 without charge being made for packing and transport.
The catches, added later, were supplied by the Birmingham brass founders James Cartland & Son, trading at Weamon Row in the 1840s.
The distinctive Scottish 'honey-pot' baluster turning of the legs is characteristic of Morison's work at Blairquhan and is shared on the side cabinet (lot 31) and dining chairs (lot 73).