BY GEORGE BULLOCK, 1817

Details

A REGENCY BROWN OAK, OAK AND HOLLY DRESSING-TABLE
By George Bullock, 1817
With rectangular top above a drawer flanked on each side by a cupboard, on ring-turned taperings legs, brass caps and castors
30¾ in. (78 cm.) high; 48¼ in. (122.5 cm.) wide; 21 in. (53.5 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 291.

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis

Lot Essay

Bullock supplied a total of eleven dressing-tables for the bedrooms. The more expensive, of oak with holly mouldings of which five were delivered, cost £11 (though one, with a 'sliding looking glass' cost £14); three more, of 'wainscot', cost £5 5s each. One dressing table (of the £11 model) was either not delivered or returned as superfluous and the most expensive one appears to have been reduced in price to £11 after a complaint from Boulton.
The triumphal-arched dressing-table, with Grecian-stepped cornice, is embellished with sunk tablets of rich marble-figured oak. Its general form derives from a sideboard pattern in Thomas Sheraton's Encyclopaedia, 1803 (pl. 34).

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