CIRCA 1800, ATTRIBUTED TO WILLIAM TROTTER

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A SCOTTISH GEORGE III MAHOGANY LINEN PRESS
CIRCA 1800, ATTRIBUTED TO WILLIAM TROTTER
With two doors enclosing five sliding trays, above two short and two long drawers, on bracket feet
80¾ in. (205 cm.) high; 52 in. (132 cm.) wide; 23½ in. (60 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

The form of angular handle used on this linen press gained polularity in London in the 1790s and seems to have found favour with William Trotter soon after. A Pembroke table by Young and Trotter of 1801, with a similar handle with the same characteristic faceted swelling centre is illustrated in The Regional Furniture Society Journal, Maney, 1992, At the Sign of The Pelican, Sebastian Pryke, pp. 11, fig. 2.

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