A SCOTTISH REGENCY ASH AND SPECIMEN MARBLE CENTER TABLE IN...
The rectangular top inlaid with small squares of various marble specimens, the plain frieze inlaid with a rectangular-strung panel and with scroll-form supports to the sides, on a rectangular pedestal with egg-and-dart molding at the base, on a curving rectangular platform with four out-swept legs terminating in paw feet with castors
271⁄2 in. (69.9 cm.) high, 321⁄2 in. (82.6 cm.) wide, 17 in. (43.2 cm.) deep
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The Edinburgh cabinet-maker William Trotter (d.1833) descended from a long line of merchants, upholsterers, and cabinet-makers. Trading initially as Young, Trotter and Hamilton, with premises at the east end of Princes Street on the corner with North Bridge, he ceased trading under that name in 1805, continuing at 5 Princes Street as sole proprietor until 1810, when he opened new premises at 9 Princes Street. His shop, noted for its fully furnished display rooms, was celebrated enough to be listed as a destination for visitors to Edinburgh in Thomas Dibdin's Tour in the North Counties of England and in Scotland (1838), and Trotter himself went on to serve as a leading figure on the town council and as Lord Provost during the 1820s (S. Nenadic, Craftworkers in Nineteenth-Century Scotland: Making and Adapting in an Industrial Age, Edinburgh, 2021, p. 36).
Among his important commissions, and one which is well documented, is the furniture he made for the Library and the Gallery at Paxton House, Berwickshire, circa 1814 (F. Bamford, "A Dictionary of Edinburgh Furniture Makers, 1660 to 1840," Furniture History, 1983, pls. 49-61). The furniture at Paxton is strongly characterized by his use of gadrooned mouldings; however, he also supplied furniture of a more restrained nature, in the manner of the London cabinet-makers, to other establishments, such as the Speculative Society's room at Edinburgh University circa 1822 (ibid., pl. 63), and Dun House in Angus in 1828 (H. Montgomery-Massingberd and C. Simon Sykes, Great Houses of Scotland, 1997, pp. 160-173).
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The rectangular top inlaid with small squares of various marble specimens, the plain frieze inlaid with a rectangular-strung panel and with scroll-form supports to the sides, on a rectangular pedestal with egg-and-dart molding at the base, on a curving rectangular platform with four out-swept legs terminating in paw feet with castors
271⁄2 in. (69.9 cm.) high, 321⁄2 in. (82.6 cm.) wide, 17 in. (43.2 cm.) deep
Lot Essay
The Edinburgh cabinet-maker William Trotter (d.1833) descended from a long line of merchants, upholsterers, and cabinet-makers. Trading initially as Young, Trotter and Hamilton, with premises at the east end of Princes Street on the corner with North Bridge, he ceased trading under that name in 1805, continuing at 5 Princes Street as sole proprietor until 1810, when he opened new premises at 9 Princes Street. His shop, noted for its fully furnished display rooms, was celebrated enough to be listed as a destination for visitors to Edinburgh in Thomas Dibdin's Tour in the North Counties of England and in Scotland (1838), and Trotter himself went on to serve as a leading figure on the town council and as Lord Provost during the 1820s (S. Nenadic, Craftworkers in Nineteenth-Century Scotland: Making and Adapting in an Industrial Age, Edinburgh, 2021, p. 36).
Among his important commissions, and one which is well documented, is the furniture he made for the Library and the Gallery at Paxton House, Berwickshire, circa 1814 (F. Bamford, "A Dictionary of Edinburgh Furniture Makers, 1660 to 1840," Furniture History, 1983, pls. 49-61). The furniture at Paxton is strongly characterized by his use of gadrooned mouldings; however, he also supplied furniture of a more restrained nature, in the manner of the London cabinet-makers, to other establishments, such as the Speculative Society's room at Edinburgh University circa 1822 (ibid., pl. 63), and Dun House in Angus in 1828 (H. Montgomery-Massingberd and C. Simon Sykes, Great Houses of Scotland, 1997, pp. 160-173).
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