Chess table
J. G. Bullon (fl. c.1833)
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1830
Materials
Ebonised and monochrome painted and inked beech(?), pen work, rosewood and glass frame
Measurements
75 x 45 x 45 cm
Place of origin
Bury St Edmunds
Order this imageCollection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 850062
Summary
A pen-work games table, by J. G. Bullon, Bury St. Edmunds, circa 1833. The square top with a monochrome chess board with ebonised squares and with the white squares with pen work drawings of classical buildings and ruins after the drawings of Piranesi. Within a double border of floral scrolls above a concave frieze with further scroll decoration and raised on a lobbed column and gadrooned collar. The concave quatrefoil plinth with conforming decoration raised on gadrooned feet. Fitted with a rosewood framed glazed top, later addition. See G. Beard & C. Gilbert, Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840 pg.128 and Joy, English Furniture 1800-1851 illus.p.213
Provenance
Part of the Bristol Collection. The house and contents were acquired through the National Land Fund and transferred to the National Trust in 1956.
Makers and roles
J. G. Bullon (fl. c.1833), furniture maker
References
Beard, Geoffrey W. Dictionary of English furniture makers, 1660-1840 1986.