Lot Essay
The foliate border inlay on the top corresponds to patterns for borders conceived by the cabinet-maker and sculptor George Bullock (d.1819) and form part of a scrapbook of tracings and engravings related to the work of George Bullock that were copied and assembled by Thomas Wilkinson in 1820 (now in the City Museum and Art Gallery of Birmingham). Examples of similar designs for borders are illustrated in C. Wainwright, George Bullock, Cabinet-Maker, 1988, p.96, fig.41 and p.98, fig.42. The form of the table itself relates closely to another design in the Wilkinson Tracings which shares similar roundel trestles headed by foliate scrolled brackets (C.Wainwright, op.cit, p.111, fig.48).