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This item WAS NOT SOLD. Auction date was 2002 Jun 04 @ 11:00UTC-08:00 : PST/AKDT
A REGENCY EBONY-INLAID MAHOGANY PEDESTAL DESK attributed to George Bullock Circa 1815 The brown leather-inset rectangular crossbanded top with molded edge, the inverted breakfront frieze fitted with a central drawer and two end drawers, the kneehole with spandrel brackets, each pedestal with panelled door inlaid with stylised foliage, one, enclosing shelves, the other, four drawers, on a plinth base 30 X 56 X 22 in. 76 X 142 X 56 cm - $25,000-35,000 The bold ornament and strict Neoclassic proportions of this plinth-supported desk with step-corniced pedestals reflect George Bullock's (1778-1818) espousal of the 'Grecian' style. The use of broad 'Etruscan' ebony inlay in the French manner to reinforce these proportions is recurrent in his work, as on the stand for a bust of Shakespeare supplied to Sir Walter Scott at Abbotsford in 1816 (Clive Wainwright et al., George Bullock, London, 1988, p. 78). The inset fillets to the doors are complimented by the stylised fruiting buds inlaid in the acorn-finialed spandrels, the pendant finials of which are found elsewhere in Bullock's work as on a table in the late Sir James Stirling's collection (Ibid., p. 110). In 1816, the 'tasteful simplicity' of this type of inlaid furniture was praised in Rudolph Ackerman's Repository of the Arts. Bullock practised as a sculptor and cabinet-maker in Liverpool before moving to London in 1813. Until his death in 1818, Bullock established himself as one of the most brilliant, original and technically accomplished cabinet-makers in England. His main commissions, many of which have only recently come to light, included work for Blair Castle, Tew Park, Battle Abbey, the Duke of Atholl, and for his close friend Sir Walter Scott, whose small Scottish farmhouse Abbotsford he transformed into a romantic baronial mansion. In 1815, at Wellington's insistance, Bullock was commissioned to supply the furniture for Napoleon's final exile at New Longwood House, St. Helena.
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