Research
Of Laburnum, Ash and Satinbirch with gilt brass gallery. The serpentine crossbanded top with brass rear gallery. The corpus of conforming shape and fitted with original crossbanded adjustable shelves. The whole resting on a plain plinth.
Provenance:
A North Country UK Collection
The present bookcase incorporates several native Scottish woods important to cabinetmaking in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including ash, Satin birch and laburnum (sometimes called Scotch Walnut or Pease Cod). “Amongst the native Scottish woods used in furniture making, none is more lustrous and attractive than Scottish Laburnum” and it was “perhaps the most highly prized amongst the more unusual cabinet- and chair-making woods…which have been employed in the country.”
Full research report available on request.