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A Regency pollard oak and brass marquetry circular table, by George Bullock, circa 1815

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A Regency pollard oak and brass marquetry circular table, by George Bullock, circa 1815, the top decorated with brass marquetry depicting repeating foliate designs, the turned stem with ebonised detail, above a shaped triangular plinth decorated with further foliate brass marquetry, and three downswept legs surmounted by ebonised roundel terminals and on ball feet, 73cm high, the top 75cm diameter

For a table by George Bullock that is almost identical in overall design and scale to the current table being offered (but adopts alternate marquetry also based on the Wilkinson Tracings) see Christies Important English Furniture, 27th November 2003, Lot 160 (£65,725). The table sold by Christies also had firm provenance to Great Tew Park. Bullock had supplied the table with various other items of furniture to M. R. Boulton (d. 1842) and by descent to
Major Eustace Robb, Tew Park, Great Tew, Oxfordshire (sold Christie's house sale, 27-29 May 1987, lot 33)

The remarkably similar table supplied for Tew Park was made for the Drawing Room and invoiced in 1817 as '1 Circular Oak Loo Table richly inlaid with Holly & white mouldings £28'. George Bullock's 'sketch' for the centre table for Matthew Robinson Boulton's Drawing Room is likely to have been the pattern sent in January 1816 following his December visit to Tew 'with the view to the preparations of the furniture'. Named a 'Loo table' after a card-game, its circular 'altar' form on Grecian-scrolled 'claw' evolved from the monopodium table illustrated in Thomas Hope'sHousehold Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807 (pl. XXXIX).

The inlay patterns survive in the 'Bullock' tracings executed by Thomas Wilkinson from George Bullocks designs in 1820 (preserved in the Birmingham City Art Gallery) as they do also for the main marquetry elements of the current table.

Another remarkably similar centre or Loo table is illustrated in George Bullock: Cabinet-Maker. London: John Murray Ltd., 1988, page 100. The illustrated example has identical marquetry to the example currently being offered at the centre of its top, however the illustrated example lacks the outer border of etruscan laurel marquetry that the current example is decorated with. A sofa table attributed to George Bullock, decorated with Etruscan laurel marquetry banding closely relating that which decorates the current table was offered at Christies, London, Important English Furniture, 6th April 2000, Lot 123 (£44,650). Other pieces firmly attributed to or known to be by George Bullock also feature the same or very closely related design of marquetry. This includes a tripod table (also incorporating brass inlay) supplied in 1814 by Bullock to John, 4th Duke of Atholl for Blair Castle, Perthshire (illustrated in C. Wainwright,George Bullock, Cabinet-maker, 1988, p.67, fig.8.).

Condition Report:
Minor marks, scratches and abrasions comensurate with age and use. some old chips and splits. some minor old repairs, very few small losses. The table is of solid structure overall. Some additional scratching to the brass stringing at the base of the table. The brass variously cleaned over time. Some old tears in finer/ thin detail of marquetry. some very minor/slight lifting to some areas of brass detail which could be easily remedied by careful attention by a restorer. The ebonised surface of the stem has worn away to reveal the underlying timber fairly significantly. The ebonised detail to the pendant section beneatht he base has 'perished' and flaked. (see images) Please refer to additional images for visual reference to condition.

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A Regency pollard oak and brass marquetry circular table, by George Bullock, circa 1815, the top decorated with brass marquetry depicting repeating foliate designs, the turned stem with ebonised detail, above a shaped triangular plinth decorated with further foliate brass marquetry, and three downswept legs surmounted by ebonised roundel terminals and on ball feet, 73cm high, the top 75cm diameter

For a table by George Bullock that is almost identical in overall design and scale to the current table being offered (but adopts alternate marquetry also based on the Wilkinson Tracings) see Christies Important English Furniture, 27th November 2003, Lot 160 (£65,725). The table sold by Christies also had firm provenance to Great Tew Park. Bullock had supplied the table with various other items of furniture to M. R. Boulton (d. 1842) and by descent to
Major Eustace Robb, Tew Park, Great Tew, Oxfordshire (sold Christie's house sale, 27-29 May 1987, lot 33)

The remarkably similar table supplied for Tew Park was made for the Drawing Room and invoiced in 1817 as '1 Circular Oak Loo Table richly inlaid with Holly & white mouldings £28'. George Bullock's 'sketch' for the centre table for Matthew Robinson Boulton's Drawing Room is likely to have been the pattern sent in January 1816 following his December visit to Tew 'with the view to the preparations of the furniture'. Named a 'Loo table' after a card-game, its circular 'altar' form on Grecian-scrolled 'claw' evolved from the monopodium table illustrated in Thomas Hope'sHousehold Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807 (pl. XXXIX).

The inlay patterns survive in the 'Bullock' tracings executed by Thomas Wilkinson from George Bullocks designs in 1820 (preserved in the Birmingham City Art Gallery) as they do also for the main marquetry elements of the current table.

Another remarkably similar centre or Loo table is illustrated in George Bullock: Cabinet-Maker. London: John Murray Ltd., 1988, page 100. The illustrated example has identical marquetry to the example currently being offered at the centre of its top, however the illustrated example lacks the outer border of etruscan laurel marquetry that the current example is decorated with. A sofa table attributed to George Bullock, decorated with Etruscan laurel marquetry banding closely relating that which decorates the current table was offered at Christies, London, Important English Furniture, 6th April 2000, Lot 123 (£44,650). Other pieces firmly attributed to or known to be by George Bullock also feature the same or very closely related design of marquetry. This includes a tripod table (also incorporating brass inlay) supplied in 1814 by Bullock to John, 4th Duke of Atholl for Blair Castle, Perthshire (illustrated in C. Wainwright,George Bullock, Cabinet-maker, 1988, p.67, fig.8.).

Condition Report:
Minor marks, scratches and abrasions comensurate with age and use. some old chips and splits. some minor old repairs, very few small losses. The table is of solid structure overall. Some additional scratching to the brass stringing at the base of the table. The brass variously cleaned over time. Some old tears in finer/ thin detail of marquetry. some very minor/slight lifting to some areas of brass detail which could be easily remedied by careful attention by a restorer. The ebonised surface of the stem has worn away to reveal the underlying timber fairly significantly. The ebonised detail to the pendant section beneatht he base has 'perished' and flaked. (see images) Please refer to additional images for visual reference to condition.

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