Lot 140

SIR ROBERT LORIMER (1864-1929)
MAHOGANY CHILD'S COT, CIRCA 1920

Auction: 19 August 2013 at 12:00 BST
£1,375
Description
made by Whytock & Reid, Edinburgh, the head and foot boards with figured veneers, each flanked by square uprights surmounted by carved animal figures, the adjustable slatted sides with brass fittings, the whole raised on moulded square legs terminating in scroll-carved pad feet
Dimensions
144cm long, 125cm high, 38cm deep
Footnote
Literature: Savage, Peter 'Lorimer and the Edinburgh Craft Designers', Edinburgh 1980, pl. 219, where newel posts on the main staircase at Lympne Castle in Kent (1907) show similar animal designs.
