A Regency burr oak and ebony-inlaid and ebonised side cabinet circa 1815, by George Bullock

the top with two drawers above a pair of doors enclosing ten drawers stamped `G BULLOCK'

Good restored condition. The top has cracked and has been repaired with the inserting of a thin fillet of timber. Re-finished appearance. One handle missing from inner drawer. Metal grilles probably replaced.
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George Bullock ( b.1777/1778) is noted as being in London in 1798, by J.W.Langford in  A Century of Birmingham Life, 1868, where he is described as a `young artist who gained such great repute in Birmingham'. In 1804 he showed a marble bust of Blundell at the Royal Academy and in the same year he appears in the Liverpool Directory  as `Bullock, George , Modellor and Sculptor, Lord Street'. In 1805 his business was entitled `Bullock & Stoakes Cabinet Makers, General Furnishers and Marble Workers 48 Church Street'.  After various other partnerships in Liverpool, the contents of his Liverpool premises, which were described as `Fashionable Modern Furniture' were sold and he returned to London. In 1813 he was described as `Bullock, George  upholsterers Grecian Rooms, Egyptian Hall Piccadilly', and in 1815 as ` Sculptor, 4 Tenterden Street, Hanover Square, Mona Marble and Furniture Works, Oxford Street,' remaining at these premises until his death in 1818.

His furniture is remarkable for his use of indigenous English woods such as oak, inlaid with more exotic varieties, and the lavish use of brass inlays, gilded mounts and grilles.The sale of the stock remaining at his death included `The Superb Furniture and Sculptured Articles of Beautiful Mona Marble..  the whole of the finished stock of that highly indigenous artist'.

Besides his work at Great Tew for Mathew Robinson Boulton, the son  of the celebrated Matthew Boulton of Birmingham, his known clients included : The Earl of Mansfield, the Duke of Atholl, and Sir Walter Scott at Abbotsford. He was also famously commissioned to furnish New Longwood House, St Helena, the residence of the exiled Emperor Napoleon.

The present lot can be compared with a bookcase of related form supplied by Bullock for New Longwood House, illustrated in Clive Wainwright, George Bullock Cabinet-maker, London, 1988, p.102. A further example for comparison is in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum London, illustrated Clive Wainwright op.cit. p.104. Another example which is also stamped G BULLOCK is illustrated in Christopher Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture, 1700-1840, Leeds, 1996, p.123.