ALMOST CERTAINLY SUPPLIED ON 8TH DECEMBER 1824 BY JAMES AND MATHEW MORISON OF EDINBURGH AND AYR

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A SCOTTISH GEORGE IV EBONISED DAY-BED
ALMOST CERTAINLY SUPPLIED ON 8TH DECEMBER 1824 BY JAMES AND MATHEW MORISON OF EDINBURGH AND AYR
Upholstered in crimson velvet on turned legs
36 in. (91 cm.) high; 79 in. (201 cm.) long

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Lot Essay

Probably the sofa recorded by Sir David Hunter Blair on 8th December 1824 for the family bedroom at Blairquhan 'a Sopha with 1/2 back about £8.10.0' (Blairquhan Archive).

The handsome Grecian-sofa, with its Grecian-black japanning, relates to a 'Chaise Longue' pattern in George Smith's, Collection of Designs for Household Furniture, 1808 (pl.64). While its elegantly scrolled and tapered head-board corresponds to a pattern introduced around 1810 by the London cabinet-maker George Bullock (d.1818) and popularised by his sofa pattern published by R. Brown in Rudiments of Drawing Cabinet and Upholstery Furniture, 1822 (2nd ed., pl. 12).

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