A Scottish George III style pierced and engraved brass fender in the manner of David Robertson of Edinburgh

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UK: Greenford Park WarehouseNo Reserves

Lot Closed

January 20, 03:30 PM GMT

Estimate

1,200 - 1,800 GBP

Lot Details

Description

The Property of the Marquess of Lothian

A Scottish George III style pierced and engraved brass fender in the manner of David Robertson of Edinburgh

decorated with Wyverns and scrolling foliage fixed to a steel base, together with a set of George III brass mounted and polished steel fire irons and a pair of George III brass and steel andiron and a brass mounted fuel carrying ladle (7)

15cm. high, 160cm. wide, 31cm. deep; 6in., 5ft. 3in., 1ft. ¼in.

fire-irons: Newbattle Abbey, Midlothian, Inventory, 1901, p.22, in the Oak Dressing Room, ‘Set steel fire-irons brass tops’ however there are other sets described in the inventory;
fender: Elizabeth Griffiths et al, Blickling Hall, The National Trust, 1987, p.46, in a photograph, possibly taken circa 1929, of the Brown Drawing Room

The fender is after types by David Roberts, this is on the basis of a surviving bill from Dumfries House, Ayrshire. Roberts is known to have supplied a fire grate and fender with identical Wyvern and floral pierced decoration to the Earl of Dumfries for the Stone Hall. (see Christie's sale catalogue for Dumfries House 13 July 2007, Vol. II, lot 298)

Whilst the fender appears in a historic photograph taken at Blickling in Norfolk, the family seemed to have moved furniture and works of art between their homes in Scotland and England.