Lot 164
PAIR OF OAK, LARCH, AND EBONY MARQUETRY SLATE-TOPPED CABINETS, ATTRIBUTED TO GEORGE BULLOCK
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Auction: Day 1
Description
in the Greek Revival style, the grey slate tops above long frieze drawers and pairs of ebony moulded panel doors inlaid with stylised palmettes. anthemions and flower heads, the corners marked with bullseye roundels, enclosing shelved interiors, on bracket feet raised on integrated plinth bases (2)
Dimensions
85cm wide, 97cm high, 45cm deep
Footnote
Note: Several cabinets associated with Bullock are decorated with the same pattern on the door panels and further details are given in Clive Wainwright ed., George Bullock, Cabinet-maker, 1988, pp. 65-66, cat. no. 4 and fig. 24, pp. 104-5, cat. nos. 40-1. The cabinet is also typical of his furniture with its moulded top and heavy plinth. For an example attributed to George Bullock with a similar raised plinth, see Frances Collard Regency Furniture, pg. 112; and for an example with matching inlay to the doors, also attributed to Bullock and supplied to Blair Atholl, Perthshire, in 1817, see the same publication, pg. 134. A cabinet with similarities to the present pair and with identical marquetry to the doors is in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, Access. W.32:1 to 33-1979.
The design for the marquetry is among a collection of tracings, originally bound in a scrapbook inscribed 'Tracings by Thomas Wilkinson from the designs of the late Mr. George Bullock 1820' (Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, unbound no.240). The tracing for this particular design is dated August 1816 (unbound number 240).