Live Auction 2385Christie's Interiors
A REGENCY MAHOGANY LIBRARY TABLE
Lot 289

A REGENCY MAHOGANY LIBRARY TABLE

ATTRIBUTED TO WILLIAM TROTTER, EARLY 19TH CENTURY, THE TOP ADAPTED

Closed4 October 2011

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GBP 2,250

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY LIBRARY TABLE
ATTRIBUTED TO WILLIAM TROTTER, EARLY 19TH CENTURY, THE TOP ADAPTED
The black leather inset top above a panelled frieze with bow ends, on reeded legs with foliate capitals, formerly the stand for a display case, the top later adapted to form a writing table
36 in. (92 cm.) high; 114¼ in. (290 cm.) wide; 36 in. (92 cm.) deep

Specialist note

See Francis Bamford, A Dictionary of Edinburgh Furniture Makers 1660-1840, London, 1983, pl. 62, for an almost identical table, surmounted by a glass display cabinet, by William Trotter (d. 1833). The table was supplied by Trotter for Robert Jameson's Museum of Natural history or "College Museum" designed by William Playfair to house Edinburgh University's natural history collection (now the Talbot Rice Gallery).