BY JAMES AND MATHEW MORISON OF EDINBURGH AND AYR, ALMOST CERTAINLY SUPPLIED CIRCA 1820-1823

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A SCOTTISH GEORGE IV MAHOGANY SIX PEDESTAL DINING-TABLE
BY JAMES AND MATHEW MORISON OF EDINBURGH AND AYR, ALMOST CERTAINLY SUPPLIED CIRCA 1820-1823
The rounded rectangular top on ring-turned honeypot columns and downswept legs, the underside labelled in paper 'Blairquhan 7/179', the underframe of two pedestals replaced, with later catches stamped 'Cartland, Birmingham'
29¼ in. (74.5 cm.) high; 58¼ in. (148 cm.) deep; 168 in. (427 cm.) long

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Lot Essay

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).

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