DESIGNED BY WILLIAM ATKINSON CIRCA 1811, POSSIBLY BY GEORGE BULLOCK

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A REGENCY OAK AND EBONY-INLAID CHEST
DESIGNED BY WILLIAM ATKINSON CIRCA 1811, POSSIBLY BY GEORGE BULLOCK
With two short and three long drawers between inlaid uprights headed with shield-shaped ornament, on ebonised bun feet, with a paper label printed 'Mura, England', possibly previously but not necessarily originally with drop-handles, some moulding missing
37¾ in. (97 cm.) high; 44 in. (112 cm.) wide; 22½ in. (57 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

William Atkinson's hand-drawn design for 'Drawers for Bedroom' is held in the Scone Palace Family Archive.

The rectilinear chest, executed in oak in the 'Elizabethan' manner, is embellished in the French-antique fashion with pilaster tablets framed in black ribbon inlay; and its stepped plinth raised on French stump feet. Its pattern, with quatrefoiled flowered tablets in place of trefoils, corresponds to that of the following lot (403).
George Bullock used ebony line-inlay in a similar fashion to that seen on this chest and on lots 400, 401, 403, 404 and 405.

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