Beschreibung:

A Regency burr oak and ebony library table, in the manner of George Bullock circa 1815, the rectangular top with gilt tooled green leather inset and the crossbanding incorporating ebony banding cornered by marquetry acorn terminals, above a pair of drawers and an opposing pair of false drawers, the frieze cornered by a carved acorn pendant finial, above twin turned supports carved with oak leaf and acorn collars, above turned acorn feet and brass casters, 76cm high, 182.5cm wide, 80cm deepFor a related design of library table adopting the same materials and with twin pillar supports, see Christie's New York, Important English Furniture,9th April 2003, Lot 129 (28.680 USD). The scale of the current table and the inclusion of distinctive pendant finials to the corners of the frieze could similarly be attributed to the designs ofRichard Bridgens. Bridgens and Bullock did work together and Richard Hicks Bridgens (d. 1846) working relationship with Messrs George Bullock (d. 1818) and William Bullock, proprietors of Piccadilly's 'Egyptian Hall', was established by 1812, and they collaborated in such projects as Sir Henry Godfrey VassalWebster's historic 'Hastings' Hall at Battle Abbey, Sussex, whose furniture featured in Rudolph Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 1817. This pattern of table to which the current table relates was invented in 1823 to correspond with the 17th Century Jacobean mantelpiece in James Watts's great library at Aston Hall,Birmingham, where it featured in situ in A.E. Everitt's 1854 watercolour (pl. 96B). The design was later included amongst Bridgens' Aston furnishingsin the Elizabethan, Gothic and Grecian manner published in Designs for Furniture with Candelabra and Interior Decoration, 1838 (V. Glenn, 'GeorgeBullock, Richard Bridgens and James Watt's Regency Furniture Schemes', Furniture History, 1979, pls. 96B, 102B and 103A).