DESIGNED BY WILLIAM ATKINSON, JULY 1821

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A PAIR OF GEORGE IV OAK EASY ARMCHAIRS
DESIGNED BY WILLIAM ATKINSON, JULY 1821
Each upholstered in later green and red floral-patterned cloth, with gothic panelled arm terminals, on turned tapering legs with brass caps and castors, probably previously fitted with mounts or carvings to the seat frieze and with arcaded carving below, the castors marked 'E.S.& B.' (2)

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Lot Essay

William Atkinson's original hand-drawn design for a 'Sofa for Gallery Scone, July 1821' with identical arm-terminal carving is held in the Scone Palace Family Achive.

The fireside bergere chairs, whose Grecian-cippus arms are fretted with crocket-gables and cusp-arched niches, reflect the robust baronial antique gothic fashion adopted by the architect William Atkinson (d.1839) following his training in the offices of James Wyatt (d.1813). A related bergere pattern featured in R. Ackermann's, Repository of Arts, 1828.

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