LOUIS XV STYLE ROSEWOOD, TULIPWOOD AND FLORAL MARQUETRY BUREAU PLAT, IN THE MANNER OF EDWARD HOLMES BALDOCK Y
19TH CENTURY
£6,048
Auction: Day Two: 07 September 2023 | From 11:00
Description
applied with gilt bronze mounts, the shaped top with moulded edge and scalloped cartouche corner mounts, the burr walnut centre panel within a marquetry border of scrolling strapwork, acanthus scrolls and floral garlands, above a central single frieze drawer, the sides with similar marquetry and the ends with male masks, on cabriole legs headed by acanthus scroll and harebell cast full mounts trailing to scroll sabots
Dimensions
158cm long, 78cm high, 87cm deep
Provenance
Provenance: The Ashley Hall Collection: By order of The Trustees of the J. Porter Trust & The Executors of the late Leonard Rawcliffe
Footnote
Note: Edward Holmes Baldock (1777-1845) is listed in London Trade Directories of the period in various capacities. He first appears listed at 7 Hanway Street, London in 1805 described as a '...dealer in china and glass' and by 1821 as '...an antique furniture and ornamental furniture dealer'. By 1826 the various facets of the business included '...buying and selling, exchanging and valuing china, cabinets, screens, bronzes etc'. He is known to have repaired, re-modelled and adapted furniture, often 18th century pieces, but he also designed furniture both in the 18th century style and in more contemporary styles. The fashion for this type of inlay was popularised by the Tottenham Court Road inlayer and buhl manufacturer Robert Blake in the 1820s. By the 1840s the firm were trading as Blake, Geo. & Brothers, inlayers, etc' in Tottenam Court Road and Mount Street, Mayfair and were renamed George Blake & Co. sometime in the late 1840', and it is now generally assumed that pieces previously attributed to Baldock were in fact produced by the Blake family but sold under Baldock's name.
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