£693
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Auction: Select Property from Penicuik House, Midlothian - 27th March 2024 at 10am
the shaped top rails carved with acanthus and centred by shell motifs above carved and pierced vasiform splats, over wide stuffover seats covered in red hide with close nail trim raised on square chamfered legs united by stretchers (4)
55cm wide, 92cm high, 43cm deep
Sir James Clerk, 3rd Baronet of Penicuik (1709 – 1782), Penicuik House, Midlothian. Thence by descent
Note: Multiple entries for elm chairs appear in Sir James' account ledger, mostly without the name of the wright who made them, as they were frequently paid through Blaikie's account. There is however an entry on 24 March 1769 of payment to a Abraham Gray for ‘1 Dozen Alem Chairs with stuft seats’.