6 Lyon & Turnbull
Select Items from Arthur Lodge, Edinburgh Arthur Lodge itself has been the perfect setting for antique furniture and works of art, which has as much to show on the inside as it does outside: various rooms have been decorated with colourful murals and friezes, Norwegian oak panelling, Venetian embroidered velvet doors and Ionic columns. Similarly, it's history includes various interesting former residents from the Antarctic explorer and co-founder of the Scottish National Party, artist William Burn-Murdoch, to QC John Pinkerton and conservator Jack Howells. The latter bought the Lodge in the 1980s and undertook a large Neoclassical restoration project of the property, before it was purchased by the most recent former residents in 2002. Lyon & Turnbull are pleased to include the select contents of Arthur Lodge in our autumnal sale, showcasing pieces from Georgian and Regency furniture to Victorian works of art, as well as Chinese ceramics and French bedroom furniture.
1 SCOTTISH LATE REGENCY MAHOGANY DRUMHEAD CLOCK, GEORGE BROWN, EDINBURGH EARLY 19TH CENTURY the circular silvered dial with Roman and Arabic chapters, with subsidiary seconds and calendar dials, signed ‘George Brown/ Edin/ burgh’, in an arched moulded hood with scroll cresting and brass orb finials, above a crossbanded shaped trunk door flanked by reeded quarter columns, on a plinth base with bracket feet; the eight day movement striking a bell 220cm high, 49cm wide, 25cm deep
£1,000-1,500
2 GEORGE III MAHOGANY AND FRUITWOOD INLAID FOLD-OVER CARD TABLE LATE 18TH CENTURY the line inlaid octagonal top opening on double gatelegs to a green baize playing surface, above a plain frieze raised square tapered legs, all outlined with stringing 100cm wide, 74cm high, 49.5cm deep
£400-600