Lot Essay
The foliate banding on the top reproduces a pattern for borders conceived by the Liverpool and London cabinet-maker and sculptor George Bullock (d.1818). A closely related design appears on a tracing numbered 208 in The Wilkinson Tracings, a scrapbook of tracings and engravings that copied Bullock's designs assembled by Thomas Wilkinson in 1820. This border design appears on a large circular table that belonged to Bullock himself which is illustrated in C. Wainwright, George Bullock, Cabinet-Maker, 1988, no.33.