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Collector's cabinet

Ref: S1
  • Designer / Maker

    The design and manufacture attributed to George Bullock (1782/83-1818)

  • Detail

    Pollarded oak veneer, with ebony, brass inlay, and brass grilles

    84.5 x 76.8 x 38 cm

    English (London), circa 1815

  • Provenance

    Sir James Stirling (1926-92), and by descent

  • Exhibited

    National Trust for Scotland, 2000-15

  • Literature

    Clive Wainwright et al., George Bullock: Cabinet-Maker, 1988, under no. 39

  • Collection

    Private collection

  • Notes

    The present cabinet corrresponds with the lower half of a Goncalo Alves bookcase exhibited in ‘George Bullock: Cabinet Maker’ (London, 1988, no. 39).  Bookcases of this form were also supplied by Bullock for Napoleon’s use on St Helena.  The design can be compared to the slightly later ‘Lady’s book-case, with Cabinet’ published by Richard Brown in 1822: see George Bullock: Cabinet-Maker, no. 39.