Y A SET OF SIX SCOTTISH REGENCY EBONY-INLAID MAHOGANY CHAIRS, CIRCA 1820

Y A SET OF SIX SCOTTISH REGENCY EBONY-INLAID MAHOGANY CHAIRSCIRCA 1820, IN THE MANNER OF WILLIAM TROTTEREach with a curved bar back centred by a tablet inlaid with anthemion, above a spiral-turned rail and caned sea with buttoned black leather-squab, on reeded sabre legs84cm high, 46cm wide, 53cm deep This highly distinctive set of ‘Grecian’ chairs drawsparallels with furniture by the leading Edinburgh cabinet-maker William Trotter(d.1833). Several of the details, such as the pronounced ‘kick’ to the profileand the distinctive ‘quilling’ (fluting) of the seat rail and legs relate to aset of eight Grecian chairs made for the library at Paxton House, Berwickshirein 1814, and to another set commissioned for the Signet Library, Edinburgh, in1822. The architect Clough Williams-Ellis owned a set of thispattern with applied, rather than inlaid, anthemia, seen in an image of hisflat at 22 South Eaton Place (R. Randal Phillips, The Modern EnglishInterior, 1928, pp. 86 - 87).

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Condition
Good, structurally secure with wear and tear consistent with age and use. There are dents marks and scratches and shrinkage cracks. There are minor repairs to joints and other minor restorations throughout. The cane and cushions all in good order.

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