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A SCOTTISH LATE VICTORIAN WALNUT AND GREEN LEATHER UPHOLSTERED CHESTERFIELD SOFA
Lot 172

A SCOTTISH LATE VICTORIAN WALNUT AND GREEN LEATHER UPHOLSTERED CHESTERFIELD SOFA

BY JOHN TAYLOR AND SON, LATE 19TH CENTURY

Closed26 February 2008

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A SCOTTISH LATE VICTORIAN WALNUT AND GREEN LEATHER UPHOLSTERED CHESTERFIELD SOFA
BY JOHN TAYLOR AND SON, LATE 19TH CENTURY
Deep buttoned throughout, the arms with fluted square section terminals with foliate blocks and flattened ball finials on tapering turned and reeded legs with brass castors, stamped 'JOHN TAYLOR & SON MANUFACTUREER EDINBURGH' and 'X 4694'
79in. (201cm.) wide

Specialist note

John Taylor set up business as wright and cabinet-maker in 1825 in West Thistle Street, Edinburgh, and subsequently at 109-10, Princes Street. In 1852 as John Taylor and Son they were appointed 'Cabinet-makers and Upholsterers in Ordinary to Her Majesty the Queen'. Their Rosemount Cabinet Works at Gardner's Court were established around 1857 and they continued trading from Princes Street until taken over in 1968. See An Anthology of Regional Furniture with Maker's Identification, Regional Furniture, vol. VII, p.130.