Lot 148
SCOTTISH ARTS & CRAFTS
OAK FOUR POSTER BED
Auction: 9 April 2008 at 11:00 BST
Description
the canopy carved with Gothic tracery and with rosette and flowerhead motifs above a plain head board with material covering, the front supports spirally moulded and imbricated with flowerheads, shields and acorn motifs, joined by a shaped triple panel foot board corresponding to the canopy
Dimensions
164cm wide, 242 high, 211cm long
Footnote
Provenance; Findynate House, Strathtay, Perthshire
Note; Findynate House was built in 1876 but in 1909 the house was extensively remodelled inside and out by the architect Francis William Deas. The woodwork was fitted out by Messrs Scott Morton & Co and it is assumed that at this time also many of the fittings included in this auction were purchased, possibly though Scott Morton & Co. or perhaps through Whytock & Reid in Edinburgh, as several Whytock and Reid pieces were discovered in the house. Deas' client Miss Janet McEwan was perhaps influenced in her choice of fittings by her cousin Robert Finnie McEwan whose house Bardrochat in Ayrshire had just been completed by Sir Robert Lorimer. The stylistic nature of the metal fireplace fittings featured here do suggest the influence or the hand of Lorimer who regularly worked closely with Scott Morton and Whytock and Reid.