EARLY 19TH CENTURY

The architectural frame of the marble-topped sideboard-table is embellished in the early 19th Century French antique manner promoted by Thomas Hope's Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, London, 1807, with fluted-incised tablets and panels. It relates, in particular, to marble chimneypieces designed by George Bullock (d. 1818) of London and Lancaster, such as that at Speke Hall, Lancashire (illustrated in C. Wainwright et al., George Bullock Cabinet Maker, London, 1988, pp. 62-64). Another such chimneypiece, designed by Bullock, was illustrated in R. Ackermann's, The Repository of Arts, January 1816 (C Wainwright. op cit., p. 120).