Lot 68
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A REGENCY EBONY-INLAID OAK AND BURR-ELM TABLE CABINET CONTAINING SPECIMEN MARBLES AND HARDSTONES
A REGENCY EBONY-INLAID OAK AND BURR-ELM TABLE CABINET CONTAINING SPECIMEN MARBLES AND HARDSTONES
A REGENCY EBONY-INLAID OAK AND BURR-ELM TABLE CABINET CONTAINING SPECIMEN MARBLES AND HARDSTONES
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A REGENCY EBONY-INLAID OAK AND BURR-ELM TABLE CABINET CONTAINING SPECIMEN MARBLES AND HARDSTONES
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A REGENCY EBONY-INLAID OAK AND BURR-ELM TABLE CABINET CONTAINING SPECIMEN MARBLES AND HARDSTONES

ATTRIBUTED TO GEORGE BULLOCK, CIRCA 1815

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A REGENCY EBONY-INLAID OAK AND BURR-ELM TABLE CABINET CONTAINING SPECIMEN MARBLES AND HARDSTONES
ATTRIBUTED TO GEORGE BULLOCK, CIRCA 1815
The top inlaid with an octagonal central lozenge above three drawers containing various associated hardstones and marbles including Sicilian jaspers, Granito Antico, Giallo Antico, Alabaster and Malachite, each drawer with incised numbering
3 1⁄8 in. (8 cm.) high; 11 7⁄8 in. (30.1 cm.) wide; 17 ½ in. (44.7 cm.) deep
Provenance
The marbles: Acquired from Alberto di Castro, November 2018.
The cabinet: Acquired from H. Blairman & Sons, March 2017.

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Lot Essay


This box was presumably made for a collector of marble specimens, or possibly as a sample box for a cabinet-maker. Two related boxes, lacking their original samples are illustrated in C. Wainwright et. al., George Bullock: Cabinet-Maker, London, 1988, no. 32.

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