Pedestal table
manner of George Bullock (c.1783 - London 1818)
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1815
Materials
Amboyna, ebony, brass, mahogany, calamander
Measurements
73 cm (H); 81 cm (Dia)
Place of origin
London
Order this imageCollection
Powis Castle and Garden, Powys
NT 1180805.1
Summary
One of a pair of brass inlaid, ebony cross banded, amboyna and mahogany pedestal occasional tables, in the manner of George Bullock (c.1782-1818), London and Liverpool, circa 1815. Each with a circular hinged top with ebony banding inlaid with brass anthemion and wheel motifs, raised on a spiral turned column with lappet collar, the triform plinth cross banded with calamander on later brass lion's paw feet.
Full description
Not much is known about Bullock's early background until he is listed as a Modeller and Sculptor in the Liverpool Trade Directories in 1804. By 1809/10 he was in partnership with Joseph Gandy and their firm was listed as Architects, Modellers, Sculptors, Marble Masons, Cabinet Makers and Upholsterers. By 1813 George Bullock appears in the London Directories as Upholsterer based in Piccadilly then Hanover Square and by 1815 has a second address listed as Mona Marble and Furniture Works, Oxford Street. The use of fine veneers and brass inlaid motifs is typical of Bullock's work, a comparable table with wheel motifs and of similar form was sold Sotheby's, Kentshire collection October 2014 lot 353. (James Weedon, February 2019)
Provenance
Recorded in 1944 Inventory as ‘A 2ft 9in amboyna circular top table rosewood and boulle border carved and spiral pillar Triangular plinth and brass claw feet' in Tapestry Drawing Room (Blue Drawing Room). Accepted by HM Treasury on 21st March, 1963 in lieu of tax and conveyed to National Trust ownership on 29th November 1963.
Makers and roles
manner of George Bullock (c.1783 - London 1818), furniture designer and maker
References
Wainwright, Clive 'George Bullock: Cabinet Maker' London 1988