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This table can be related to a group of furniture made in oak and holly by George Bullock (1777/8-1818) for Matthew Robinson Boulton of Great Tew Park, Oxfordshire, between 1816 and 1817 (sold Christie's House Sale, Great Tew Park, Oxfordshire, 27-29 May 1987, lot 14 in particular).
Correspondence began between the two men in December 1815 when Bullock was invited to visit Tew 'with a view to the preparation of the furniture' although it is evident that the two men had had contact with one another prior to this occasion. This letter is just the first recorded in a sequence of thiry-four letters between the cabinetmaker and client and which accompany a forty-two page bill for furnishing the three principle rooms.
Listed in the invoice for the furniture is 'An Oak Chess & Back-gammon table inlaid with Holly and white mouldings. Brass rail round the edge £22.' This table would appear to be of a similar model although there are slight variations between this table and the offered lot, namely the use of holly inlay as opposed to ebony. In addition, some further examples, of this form have an H-form turned stretcher and appear to vary in size. A very similar example is illustrated in George Bullock Cabinet-maker, H. Blairman & Sons Ltd., London, 1988, p. 110, fig. 47.
George Bullock moved from Liverpool to London in 1810 to create his famous museum in the Egyptian Hall in Picadilly and was first listed in London at this address in 1813. Not until 1815 was he listed again as, 'Sculptor, 4 Tenterden Street, Hanover Square, Mona Marble and Furniture Works, Oxford Street'.
Although beginning his career as a sculptor, it is Bullock's bold forms of furniture, coupled with fine and highly stylized inlay, for which he is best known. Precursory in his use of Gothic, Elizabethan and Jacobean styles which, along with his more common Neo-classical pieces, were often produced in native timbers and marbles. This was possibly a result of the Napoleonic wars which may have influenced his choice for both economic and patriotic reasons.
Despite the vast quantity of work that he appears to have had towards the end of his life, it is apparent that Bullock was facing fiscal difficulties when he died at around the age of forty. There are no real records of his designs and it is unknown for what he was personally responsible beyond a book of designs for furniture, interiors and metalwork, entitled Tracings by Thomas Wilkinson from the designs of the late Mr. George Bullock 1820. However only partial credit can be given to Bullock for this book as it almost certainly includes designs by his partner in both Liverpool and London, Richard Bridgens.
Correspondence began between the two men in December 1815 when Bullock was invited to visit Tew 'with a view to the preparation of the furniture' although it is evident that the two men had had contact with one another prior to this occasion. This letter is just the first recorded in a sequence of thiry-four letters between the cabinetmaker and client and which accompany a forty-two page bill for furnishing the three principle rooms.
Listed in the invoice for the furniture is 'An Oak Chess & Back-gammon table inlaid with Holly and white mouldings. Brass rail round the edge £22.' This table would appear to be of a similar model although there are slight variations between this table and the offered lot, namely the use of holly inlay as opposed to ebony. In addition, some further examples, of this form have an H-form turned stretcher and appear to vary in size. A very similar example is illustrated in George Bullock Cabinet-maker, H. Blairman & Sons Ltd., London, 1988, p. 110, fig. 47.
George Bullock moved from Liverpool to London in 1810 to create his famous museum in the Egyptian Hall in Picadilly and was first listed in London at this address in 1813. Not until 1815 was he listed again as, 'Sculptor, 4 Tenterden Street, Hanover Square, Mona Marble and Furniture Works, Oxford Street'.
Although beginning his career as a sculptor, it is Bullock's bold forms of furniture, coupled with fine and highly stylized inlay, for which he is best known. Precursory in his use of Gothic, Elizabethan and Jacobean styles which, along with his more common Neo-classical pieces, were often produced in native timbers and marbles. This was possibly a result of the Napoleonic wars which may have influenced his choice for both economic and patriotic reasons.
Despite the vast quantity of work that he appears to have had towards the end of his life, it is apparent that Bullock was facing fiscal difficulties when he died at around the age of forty. There are no real records of his designs and it is unknown for what he was personally responsible beyond a book of designs for furniture, interiors and metalwork, entitled Tracings by Thomas Wilkinson from the designs of the late Mr. George Bullock 1820. However only partial credit can be given to Bullock for this book as it almost certainly includes designs by his partner in both Liverpool and London, Richard Bridgens.