Lot 115
A POLISHED STEEL FIREPLACE SET BY SIR ROBERT LORIMER (1864-1929)
CIRCA 1900
Scottish Applied Arts & Wemyss
Auction: 12 August 2015 at 12:00 BST
£2,750
Description
made by Thomas Hadden, and comprising a POKER; an ASH SHOVEL; and a PAIR OF COAL PINCERS, each supported on a STAND, with curled bracket and tapering galleried tray (4)
Dimensions
stand, 46cm high
Footnote
Provenance: Cawderstanes, Paxton, Berwickshire where purchased Christies sale of the contents, 26th March, 1990, lot 54.
Note: Whytock & Reid, the Edinburgh cabinetmakers and decorators, supplied furniture and fittings to James Robertson at his home at 30 Inverleith Place, Edinburgh which were subsequently removed to Cawderstanes by his sisters in 1945.