Lot Essay
The Grecian drum-top table,with altar-scrolled pillar,has a tripod plinth on palm-flowered and patera-enriched feet that are scrolled in Ionic fashion.It was commissioned by George 8th Marquess of Tweedale as part of his refurnishing of Yester House,Scotland in preparation for his 1816 marriage to the Duke of Manchester's daughter.Its architecture and ornament relates to that of rosewood 'grecian Couches' designed for Paxton House,Scotland in late 1813 by the celebrated Edinburgh cabinet-maker William Trotter(d.1834)(sold Christie's King Street,25th June 1970,Lot 63). The table is illustrated in Francis Bamford, A Dictionary of Edinburgh Wrights and Furniture Makers 1660-1840,Figs.72A and 72B,Furniture History 1983.