Lot 274
SIR ROBERT LORIMER (STYLE OF)
PAIR OF ARTS & CRAFTS STEEL COMPANION SETS
Auction: 9 April 2008 at 11:00 BST
Description
each with poker, coal nippers and ash shover, supported on a stand with hoop handle and shaped spreading base (2)
Dimensions
59cm high
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.