Lot 64
SIR ROBERT LORIMER (1864-1929)
ARTS & CRAFTS OAK AND MARQUETRY INLAID CHEST OF DRAWERS, CIRCA 1895
Auction: 10 October 2018 at 11:00 BST
Description
probably made by William Wheeler of Arncroach, with inlaid panel by Whytock & Reid, Edinburgh, the inset rouge marble top above panelled sides and a marquetry panel depicting a hunting scene, raised above two short and one long panelled drawer raised on stile feet
107cm wide, 80cm high, 44.5cm deep
Footnote
Provenance: Janet Lorimer, Lady Chalmers; Paul Reeves, London
Literature: Savage, Peter, 'Lorimer and the Edinburgh Craft Designers', Steve Savage 1980, pp. 66-88, plates 119-125
Note: This chest was made as part of Lorimer’s wedding gift to his sister, Janet, on her marriage to Sir David Chalmers. One of Lorimer’s early furniture designs, the inlaid panel displaying similarities with another early chest with a hunting scene which Lorimer displayed at the Arts & Crafts Exhibition in London in 1893. Other inlaid furniture followed for clients, including R.W. Mackenzie at Earlshall and, as in this example, Lady Chalmers.