BY GEORGE BULLOCK, 1817

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A REGENCY BROWN OAK, OAK AND HOLLY SOFA TABLE
By George Bullock, 1817
With rounded rectangular twin-flap top inlaid with an alternating border of acorns, flowerheads and honeysuckle, the frieze inlaid with scrolling ivy and honeysuckle and enclosing two mahogany-lined frieze drawers on one side, on quadruple-column end-supports joined by a turned baluster stretcher, on arched legs with foliate caps
29¾ in. (75.5 cm.) high; 62¼ in. (158 cm.) wide, open; 28¼ in. (72 cm.) deep

Provenance

Supplied to M. R. Boulton (d. 1842) and by descent to
Major Eustace Robb, Tew Park, Great Tew, Oxfordshire, sold Christie's house sale, 27-29 May 1987, lot 34.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

This was made for the Drawing Room and invoiced in 1817 as 'An Oak Sofa Table richly inlaid with Holly & white mouldings & c £25 10s'.

The patera-enriched sofa table was intended to accompany a Grecian sofa, which is the one illustrated in the 1849 Tew watercolour (illustrated by lot 178). It was designed en suite with the circular table, and its top is wreathed with the same honey-suckled ribbon featured on the latter's frieze (see lot 160). The Grecian-arched 'claws' of its pillared trestles are inlaid with the same foliated pattern as appears on Mrs Robert Ferguson's sofa table executed in 1817 (C. Wainwright et al., George Bullock, Cabinet-Maker, London, 1988, no. 22).

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