Lot 419
A pair of Scottish Regency pollard oak side tables
Auction: 29 September 2001 at 12:00 BST
Description
attributed to William Trotter,
each with rectangular top with banded and panelled veneers and egg and dart moulding to the edge, above three frieze drawers with sunk bead and reel panels, the projecting canted front legs of scrolling truss form carved with palmette and anthemion motifs with reeded scroll toes, rectangular section panelled rear legs, extended to the back and the rear legs possibly later
193cm wide, 77cm high, 68cm deep
Footnote
Note: These tables use the 'truss' leg commonly identified with William Trotter, and a Grecian moulding to the edge of the rim. The form used here bears close comparison with that used on the circular centre table in the Lower Signet Library, Edinburgh, as well as on the tables at Paxton House. In particular the pair of tables made for George Home's Jasper tops have directly comparable trusses set at angles at the front, with pilaster supports at the rear. Although these have carved rosettes rather than roundels, the low specimen table at Paxton has roundels similar to those used here.