Regency mahogany library table by William Trotter
Adapted from a table case supplied by William Trotter to Edinburgh University in 1820*
Restorations – veneer replacements to the top – addition of morocco leather hide
Originally made for Robert Jameson’s Museum of Natural history or “College Museum” designed by William Playfair to house the University’s natural history collection. (now the Talbot Rice Gallery)
* see Francis Bamford ‘A Dictionary of Edinburgh Furniture Makers’, published by the Furniture History Society in 1983, plate 62.
