Side cabinet
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Designer / Maker
Designed and manufactured by George Bullock (1782/83-1818)
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Detail
Rosewood, ebony and ebonised beech, with brass inlay, lacquered brass mounts and mirror glass. Mona marble top
94 x 203.3 x 54.5 cm
English (London), circa 1815
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Provenance
[…]; Claude Bornoff; Helena and John Hayward; Jay Altmayer; Christie’s (New York), 19 January 2017, lot 58
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Literature
Helena Hayward, ed., World Furniture, 1967, p. 206, fig. 768.
Clive Wainwright, et al., George Bullock: Cabinet-Maker, 1988, p. 70 (text reference to ‘a remarkable sideboard in an American private collection’). -
Exhibited
H. Blairman & Sons, George Bullock: Cabinet-Maker, 24 February – 19 March 1988, no. 44 (photograph of the sideboard displayed)
Unexpected Encounters, Nelson-Atkins, June 2 – August 12, 2018. This exhibition highlights some significant acquisitions made over the past decade.
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Collection
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
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Notes
The cabinet follows a design, numbered 89, in the so-called Wilkinson Tracings (1820), now in the collection of the City Museums and Art Gallery, Birmingham.