BY GEORGE BULLOCK, 1817

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A REGENCY BROWN OAK, OAK AND HOLLY CHEVAL FIRESCREEN
By George Bullock, 1817
Double-sided, with arched pediment inlaid with scrolling foliage and flowers above three rectangular ivory damask panels, one sliding to left, one to right, the square uprights with roundel finials, on arched legs with castors
57½ in. (146 cm.) high; 45 in. (114 cm.) wide; 12¼ in. (31 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 52.

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Lot Essay

This was made for the Dining-Room and invoiced in 1817 as '1 Rich Oak Sliding Fire Screen richly inlaid with Holly with three Sliding panels in Crimson cloth £16'.

The firescreen has a Grecian-arched cresting richly inlaid with flowered foliage in the Louis Quatorze 'Roman' fashion. Some of the Dining-Room furnishings had been completed by July 1816, when Bullock informed Mr Boulton that, 'the effect of the white and oak is very delicate'. The pattern for the hop-inlaid foliage survives in the 'Bullock' tracings in Birmingham City Art Gallery, and it also relates to Bullock's designs for silver plate (C. Wainwright et al., George Bullock, Cabinet-Maker, London, 1988, p. 38, fig. 11).

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