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Lot Essay
The crest is almost certainly that of Kidney for David Kidney (1747-1770) a merchant of Lime Street, City of London and Market Harborough, Leicestershire, the son of David Kidney (d.1760) a draper of London.
The London cabinet-maker William Masters supplied oak hall chairs of the same profile to Blair Castle, Perthshire, in 1751 (illus. Connoisseur, October 1963, p. 79, fig. 5). Almost identical mahogany hall chairs by the Edinburgh maker Alexander Peter were supplied to Dumfries House, Ayrshire, in 1759 (illustrated in F. Bamford, A Dictionary of Edinburgh Furniture Makers, London, 1983, pl. 9. and Christie's Dumfries House sale catalogue, 12 July 2007, vol. 1, lots 2-4).
The London cabinet-maker William Masters supplied oak hall chairs of the same profile to Blair Castle, Perthshire, in 1751 (illus. Connoisseur, October 1963, p. 79, fig. 5). Almost identical mahogany hall chairs by the Edinburgh maker Alexander Peter were supplied to Dumfries House, Ayrshire, in 1759 (illustrated in F. Bamford, A Dictionary of Edinburgh Furniture Makers, London, 1983, pl. 9. and Christie's Dumfries House sale catalogue, 12 July 2007, vol. 1, lots 2-4).