£9,450
Home & Heritage: Property from Three Historic Houses | 12346
Auction: Select Property from Penicuik House, Midlothian - 27th March 2024 at 10am
to include a pair of sofas and a matched pair of armchairs, the sofas with straight low backs and scrolled toprails above squab seats flanked by high scrolling arms, the frames carved with flower head roundels, palmettes and reeding, raised on reeded tapered legs ending in brass caps and castors; the armchairs of enclosed bergere form with high backs and scrolled top rails above loose cushion seats, the frames similarly carved, one with slightly different legs (4)
armchairs 75cm wide, 101cm high, 53cm deep; sofas 223cm wide, 88cm high, 73cm deep
The Rt. Hon. Sir George Clerk, 6th Baronet of Penicuik (1787 – 1867), Penicuik House, Midlothian. Thence by descent
Note: The Edinburgh furniture maker William Trotter is known to have supplied furniture to Penicuik House in 1809. Various tables, a wardrobe, a canterbury, and trays and stands were invoiced and accounts paid in September of that year. While this suite does not appear in that journal entry, it is commonly accepted and consistent with family history that it was supplied by Trotter around the same time.