拍品 34
34
A REGENCY ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND BRASS-INLAID MAHOGANY, STAINED OAK, EBONISED AND PARCEL-GILT SETTEE attributed to George Bullock, the reeded scrolled toprail above a three-panelled padded back, arms, seat and squab-cushion covered in geometrically-patterned black woven horsehair, the channelled arms above an anthemia and Greek-key fret, the tasselled seat-rail with simulated panel and on ring-turned tapering legs and brass castors, restorations, re-decorated

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A REGENCY ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND BRASS-INLAID MAHOGANY, STAINED OAK, EBONISED AND PARCEL-GILT SETTEE attributed to George Bullock, the reeded scrolled toprail above a three-panelled padded back, arms, seat and squab-cushion covered in geometrically-patterned black woven horsehair, the channelled arms above an anthemia and Greek-key fret, the tasselled seat-rail with simulated panel and on ring-turned tapering legs and brass castors, restorations, re-decorated
79¾in. (202.5cm.) wide

拍品专文

This sofa, with brass inlay, ormolu enrichments and richly tasselled passementerie in the French manner, is designed in the Regency 'antique' manner with columnar legs and Grecian stele-shaped arms. It relates to a sofa pattern invented by George Bullock (d. 1818), cabinet-maker and upholsterer, shortly after he opened his Grecian Rooms in Piccadilly in 1810. (Supplied to M. R. Boulton at Tew Park, a pair of sofas in 1817, and subsequently sold anonymously in these Rooms, 8 July 1993, lot 107). The basic pattern for this Grecian scroll-backed sofa featured in Richard Brown's Rudiments of Drawing Cabinet and Upholstery Furniture, 1820. A closely related pair of brass-inlaid sofas was supplied to John Fleming Leicester, Baron de Tabley (d. 1829) for Tabley House, Cheshire.
This sofa is in Bullock's more grandiose and ormolu-mounted style. The closest comparison is with a sofa supplied to Don Pedro de Sonza e Holstein, 1st Duke of Palmella (1781-1850), and subsequently sold in these Rooms, 25 June 1987, lot 174. Three pelmets from that commission are lot 35 in this sale.