Whytock & Reid of Edinburgh Side Table

Circa 1900. Quality mahogany side table by ‘Whytock & Reid of Edinburgh’ with many ‘Sir Robert Lorimer’ influences, the shaped top in book matched flame mahogany with a low gallery to the back and sides, flush at the front, the shaped frieze with a full-length concave drawer with similar matched mahogany with cast gilded brass swan neck handles with pierced petal shaped back plates, the top of the drawer stamped ‘Whytock & Reid of Edinburgh’, the inside is polished with two adjustable divisions, beneath this there is a shaped flame mahogany frieze, all resting on four elegant cabriole legs with foliate carving on the tops and knees, and finishing on a stylish ‘Lorimeresque’ foot.