A REGENCY BROWN OAK AND ROSEWOOD SECRETAIRE-CABINET

细节

A REGENCY BROWN OAK AND ROSEWOOD SECRETAIRE-CABINET
ATTRIBUTED TO GEORGE BULLOCK

The upper section with a pair of arched panelled doors below an arched pediment and enclosing three shelves, the lower flanking sections with stepped top edged with reel, above a pair of doors with pierced columns flanking a pierced bronzed trellis enclosing five mahogany-lined drawers, the lower section with central secretaire-drawer enclosing a fitted interior with brown leather-lined writing-surface and cedar and mahogany-lined drawers, with a pair of central kneehole doors and flanking doors enclosing shelves and on lotus-leaf cut feet
61½in. (156cm.) wide; 82in. (208cm.) high; 21½in. (55cm.) deep

来源

Sir David Kinloch, Bt., Gilmerston House, East Lothian, Scotland
Anonymous sale, in these Rooms, 10 April 1986, lot 167
Anonymous sale, Christie's New York, 28 January 1989, lot 147

拍品专文

This 'bureau' has arch-panelled doors and a Grecian 'cippus-crested' pediment which are accompanied by ormolu-enriched cabinets with paired columns. They reflect the combined 'antique' and French style promoted by Thomas Hope in his Household Furniture and Interior Decoration of 1807. This style coupled with its black-banded and marbled-figure veneer of ancient 'pollarded' oak corresponds to furniture executed by the cabinet-maker George Bullock (d.1818), of Oxford Street, during the Regency of King George IV (d.1830). In particular the brass-grilles' flowered-trellis pattern features on a cippus-headed cabinet in Bullock's design commissioned in 1815 through the Prince Regent for Longwood, St. Helena, the residence of Emperor Napoleon (see: C. Wainwright, George Bullock, London, 1988, p. 103, fig. 43). The grilles also appear with oak veneer on cabinets which Bullock supplied to Don Pedro de Souza e Holstein, 1st Duke of Palmella (Wainwright, loc. cit.)