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inlaid with brass scrollwork, and trailing vine leaves, with rounded brass

pen tray and two glass ink pots, with cast brass lids. 35 x 22cm

€ 1,000 - 1,500

with single central frieze drawer and flanking cupboard doors (one a deep drawer), decorated with satinwood spandrels, rosewood

banding, boxwood stringing. 184 x 68cm deep

Provenance: Sale Wooley & Wallis, 1995

€ 3,000 - 5,000

A similar example sold in Bonhams, 17805, £3600

See Blairman’s publication , George Bullock Cabinet Maker,

fig 24. it was described in a bill which formed part of the Tew

Archive invoiced by Bullock to Mathew RobinsonBoulton in

1817. The designs for the side panels, which are identical

to the inkstand offered can be found in Wilkinsons tracings,

(p123 and unbound numbers 241, 242 and 249

There were apparently several lots in the catalogue of the

Bullock Sale of 1819 described as a ‘tray-shaped inkstand’ and

in various finishes. Martin Levy notes arosewood and brass

inlaid example also in contre-partie on the London market

in 1987, but without carrying handles (as shown here) and

bottles. Another exampleof circular form, was sold Christies,

London, 23 April 2009, lot 1 (£8500). This ink stand was also

in scarlet tortoiseshell and brass, but with mother-of-pearl

inlayand lacking bottles. It was noted that the circular pattern

could have been createdfor Queen Charlotte as she was

a visitor to Bullock’s establishment at the Grecian Rooms,

Piccadilly in 1812. A similar example described as ‘A very

sumptuous circular ink stand, of the late George Bullock’s

Buhl manufacture with richly cut glass’ was included in the

Queen’s effects sold anonymously, Christie’s, London as ‘The

Remaining part of the valuable collection of curiosities 24-26

May 1819, lot 38