ONE SCOTTISH, CIRCA 1825, THE OTHER MODERN AND SUPPLIED BY JOHN STEFANIDIS, IN THE MANNER OF GEORGE BULLOCK

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A PAIR OF OAK SERVING-TABLES
ONE SCOTTISH, CIRCA 1825, THE OTHER MODERN AND SUPPLIED BY JOHN STEFANIDIS, IN THE MANNER OF GEORGE BULLOCK
Each ornamented with half-paterae and ball mouldings, with two frieze drawers, on ring-turned and reeded tapering legs
35½ in. (90 cm.) high; 51 in. (130 cm.) wide; 21½ in. (55 cm.) deep; and 35½ in. (90 cm.) high; 62½ in. (159 cm.) wide; 21¾ in. (55.5 cm.) deep (the modern table) (2)

Provenance

Acquired from Piers Von Westenholz, London.

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Sale room notice

Please note that this lot is a matched pair of serving-tables, as there are differences in size.

Lot Essay

The half-paterae motif decorating the backboard and drawers of this late Regency sideboard features on furniture provided by George Bullock for Matthew Robinson Boulton at Great Tew Park, Oxfordshire, between 1816-1818. Bullock supplied double-bedsteads, invoiced as two '5ft. 6in. . . . of Oak with Holly mouldings cornice to fix to ceiling with Holly mouldings & patteras £15 12s', four clothes-horses with holly paterae at £1 12s each, and seven 'Night Stools' with half roundels to the corners at £4 10s each in 1817 (see Christie's house sale, 27-29 May 1987, lots 247-250, 260, and 281-3).

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