Lot 96
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A PAIR OF LATE REGENCY MAHOGANY METAMORPHIC WRITING-TABLES
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A PAIR OF LATE REGENCY MAHOGANY METAMORPHIC WRITING-TABLES

CIRCA 1815, ATTRIBUTED TO GEORGE BULLOCK

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A PAIR OF LATE REGENCY MAHOGANY METAMORPHIC WRITING-TABLES
CIRCA 1815, ATTRIBUTED TO GEORGE BULLOCK
With hinged top revealing a leather-lined interior, one in green leather the other in red leather, with two hinged compartments covering wells, on turned tapering legs, losses, with handwritten label to the underside 'Abbey' and stamped with the '1861' inventory
29½ in. (75 cm.) high; 33½ in. (85 cm.) wide; 14 in. (35 cm.) deep (2)
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Lot Essay

These card-tables were commisioned for the bedroom appartments at Woburn by John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford (d.1839) and are en suite with the four in oak supplied for his fishing cottage at Endsleigh (lots 856-8). Its columnar and reed-capped legs reflect the robust antique fashion promoted by Thomas Hope's Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807. Unusually for Bullock, these tables are executed not in indigenous woods but in mahogany, which was the timber employed by Bullock on the New Longwood House, St. Helena commission for Napoleon.

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