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'Night stool'

Ref: 6
  • Designer / Maker

    Designed and manufactured by George Bullock (died 1818)

  • Detail

    Mahogany

    51 x 53 x 45 cm

    English (London), circa 1815

  • Provenance

    […]; Laurence Black, Edinburgh, November 1991; acquired from H. Blairman & Sons, June 1993; Clive and Jane Wainwright

  • Exhibited

    The Clive and Jane Wainwright Collection, H. Blairman & Sons, 21 June – 14 July 2023, no. 6

  • Literature

    Clive Wainwright, et al., George Bullock: Cabinet-Maker, London, 1988, no. 28 (for an oak stool of this pattern)

    Martin Levy, ‘Napoleon in Exile’, Furniture History, XXIV (1998), p. 113: ‘1 [Mahogany] Night Stool’ for Napoleon’s bedroom (possibly with marquetry to the front), priced £7. 7s.  Simpler versions, also in mahogany, were supplied for officers, priced £6. 6s.

    Clive and Jane Wainwright Collection, London: H. Blairman & Sons, 2023, no. 6