Lot 1133
1133
A REGENCY GILT-METAL-MOUNTED EBONY, EBONISED AND PARCEL-GILT CENTRE TABLE
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A REGENCY GILT-METAL-MOUNTED EBONY, EBONISED AND PARCEL-GILT CENTRE TABLE

IN THE MANNER OF GEORGE BULLOCK, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A REGENCY GILT-METAL-MOUNTED EBONY, EBONISED AND PARCEL-GILT CENTRE TABLE
IN THE MANNER OF GEORGE BULLOCK, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The rectangular moulded top inset with Irish Connemara green marble or Mona marble above a brass-inlaid frieze on a turned spreading shaft and foot mounted with flowerheads, on a square plinth, with flowerhead cluster repoussé mounts, on winged paw gilt-plaster feet with sunk metal castors, the mounts associated and probably further mounted
31½ in. (80 cm.) high; 30¼ in. (77 cm.) wide; 18 in. (45.5 cm.) deep
Provenance
Possibly George Bullock (+), Stock in Trade sale, 4 Tenterden Street, Hanover Square, 13-15 May 1819: 2nd day's sale, lot 128 (£2.17s to Elliott) when described as 'An oblong pier table 2 ft. 6 by 1 ft. 2, with Mona marble top, moulded with ebony and inlaid with brass, on turned pillar and square plinth'.
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Lot Essay

The table's form, pattern of brass-inlay and feet follow an example formerly in the Wilfred Evill collection, sold Sotheby's, London, 12 July 1963, lot 99. The latter table was richly mounted with cut-brass panels and elaborate ormolu mounts. Another pedestal table with an octagonal specimen marble top and identical paw feet is at Blair Castle, Perthshire and was suppled to John, 4th Duke of Atholl for Blair Castle by the Tenterden Street cabinet-maker, George Bullock. It was invoiced in 1814 as 'An Ebony stand enriched with inlaid Brass and Bronze ornaments for specimens of marble...' The feet used are also identical to those used on a wine-cooler supplied by Bullock for the use of the exiled Emperor Napoleon whilst at Longwood House, St. Helena, now in the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery, Bournemouth (C. Wainwright et al., George Bullock: Cabinet-maker, London, 1988, p. 66-7, no. 7).

Similar gilt-plaster feet also feature on a table by George Bullock illustrated in Blairman's 2004 Catalogue, no. 3. The latter was possibly included in Christie's sale of Bullock's Finished Stock, Christie's, London, 3-5 May 1819, day 3, lot 86.

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