ATTRIBUTED TO GEORGE BULLOCK, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A REGENCY EBONY-INLAID OAK AND EBONY GAMES-TABLE
ATTRIBUTED TO GEORGE BULLOCK, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The square top with trailing foliate border and swivel central section with a chessboard on one side, opening up for games-pieces with a backgammon-board and a green leather-lined surface on the other, above a foliate-mounted frieze, on four scrolled serpentine supports joined by a concave-sided platform centred by a foliate boss on a stepped circular base, the legs and platform inlaid with foliage, on paw feet with sunk castors, inscribed in chalk 'SK95' and '55', the chessboard locked, some of the ebonising rubbed
30 in. (76 cm.) high; 38 in. (96.5 cm.) square

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Lot Essay

The library-table of golden oak, embellished with Grecian-black ebony, is conceived as an altar in the early 19th century French or antique manner. It incorporates a games-box within its pivoting leather top. Honeysuckle enriches the top's ribboned border and is inlaid in the Louis XIV 'Roman' fashion and a palm-flowered ribbon-guilloche is carved in bas-relief around the frieze. Palms and laurels embellish the serpentine and truss-scrolled pilasters and bacchic paws support the Ionic-scrolled and hollow-sided 'altar' plinth.
The frieze guilloche relates to that on a bed-pelmet designed by George Bullock and illustrated in R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 1816 (C. Wainwright, et al., George Bullock, London, 1988, p. 123) and also in metal marquetry on the friezes of a pair of cabinets at Blair Atholl (ibid., p. 68) .

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