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'Toothbrush holder'

Ref: 2315
  • Designer

    The design attributed to George Bullock (died 1818)

  • Detail

    Creamware (lead-glazed earthenware),  with painted in enamels

    Length: 22 cm

    English (presumably Staffordshire), circa 1815

  • Provenance

    Matthew Robinson Boulton, Tew Park, 1817, and thence by descent; sold Christie’s, Tew Park, 27-29 May 1987, from lot 697 [?]; private collection, 1997-2023

  • Literature

    Clive Wainwright, et al., George Bullock: Cabinet-Maker, London, 1988, no. 30

    Martin Levy, ‘Napoleon in Exile: The Houses and Furniture Supplied by thee British Government for the Emperor and his Entourage on St Helena’, Furniture History XXXIV (1998), fig. 23 a and b

  • Collection

    Private collection

  • Note

    A photograph in the Tew Archive showing a basin and ewer standing on a Bullock table is captioned ‘Toilet Set intended for the establishment of Napoleon 1st at St Helena.  Lord Bathurst, Minister for the Colonies would not allow him to have it as its was decorated with a laurel wreath and the whole of the sets were purchased by M.R. Boulton’ (Levy, loc. cit.).