拍品 106
106
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A PAIR OF REGENCY EBONISED AND EBONY-INLAID OAK AND BROWN OAK BEDSIDE CUPBOARDS attributed to George Bullock, each with moulded rectangular top above a panelled door enclosing a mahogany-lined interior between simulated pilaster strips, on turned tapering legs headed by roundels, with plain brackets, one with remains of label to the underside PICKFO.../BRO..., the door of one altered to open in the other direction and with the consequential later fillets to take the lock

细节
A PAIR OF REGENCY EBONISED AND EBONY-INLAID OAK AND BROWN OAK BEDSIDE CUPBOARDS attributed to George Bullock, each with moulded rectangular top above a panelled door enclosing a mahogany-lined interior between simulated pilaster strips, on turned tapering legs headed by roundels, with plain brackets, one with remains of label to the underside PICKFO.../BRO..., the door of one altered to open in the other direction and with the consequential later fillets to take the lock
19¼in. (49cm.) wide; 29¾in. (75.5cm.) high; 16in. (40.5cm.) deep (2)

拍品专文

These ebony-inlaid British oak bedside cupboards with 'antique' turned legs surmounted by patera-enriched tablets are executed in the elegant style chosen in 1815 by George, Prince Regent, later King George IV as appropriate furnishings for the use of the defeated 'General Bonaparte' Napoleon (d. 1821) at New Longwood House, St. Helena. Designed under the direction of the Manchester-based architect William Atkinson (d. 1839), architect of the Royal Board of Ordnance, the furnishings were supplied by George Bullock (d. 1818), upholder and cabinet-maker of Liverpool, whose London 'Grecian Rooms' had opened two years previously. Similar 'pot stands' supplied by Bullock in 1817 for Great Tew Park, Oxfordshire, cost #3.50 each (see: Christie's house sale, 27 May 1987, lot 251). Galleried pot-stands feature in the propsed design for Napoleon's bedroom dated November 1815 (see: Blairman, 'George Bullock', Exhibition Catalogue, London, 1988, fig. 40, and it is very possible that this pair furnished one of the other apartments.

Amongst related furniture brought back to England from New Longwood were a dressing-table, sold Christie's, 6 July 1988, lot 117, and a library table, sold Sotheby's, 21 November 1992, lot 164