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Four caned library bergeres
Artist: William Trotter (1772 - 1833)
Location: Paxton House
Date: 1814
Materials: mahogany
Dimensions: each 97 x 67 x 68cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £18,164 (Total: £46,707)
Vendor: Christie's
Review number: 5290 (2003)
Provenance:
George Home; by descent to Helen Milne Home; Christie's 2003.
Description:
These Grecian-scrolled library bergeres have incised 'tablet' rails and truss-pillared arms with volutes enriched with paterae en suite with the legs. They formed part of a set of four mahogany caned Library chairs supplied in 1814 for George Home's Library at Paxton House, Berwickshire by William Trotter of Prices Street, Edinburgh, at a cost of £7.70 each. The current set has one modern chair.
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