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A REGENCY MAHOGANY DAYBED

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY DAYBED
BY FERGUSON & CHRISTIE, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The padded squab cushion and scrolled padded ends and seat covered in green and gold-flowered horsehair, above a reeded seat-rail with conforming scrolled ends centred by a patera, on downswept legs with later brass caps and castors, one seat-rail inscribed in ink 'Ferguson & Christie'
24½ in. (62 cm.) high; 78 in. (198 cm.) wide; 27½ in. (70 cm.) deep

Specialist note

Several cabinet-makers bearing surnames Ferguson and Christie are recorded in G. Beard & C. Gilbert (eds.), Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840, Leeds, 1986, pp. 161 & 297. However, none are recorded in partnership. The same is also true of Edinburgh furniture-makers with the same names (F. Bamford, Dictionary of Edinburgh Furniture Makers 1660-1840, Leeds, 1983, pp. 54 & 63).
A daybed with related scrolled ends is in The Library at Erdigg and may have been introduced by Simon Yorke II (1771-1834) (Erdigg, 1988, p. 25).