A Regency gilt-bronze-mounted, brass-inlaid, rosewood and ebony centre table, circa 1815, attributed to George Bullock

Restricted SpeciesUK: Greenford Park Warehouse

Lot Closed

January 17, 02:26 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

the green porphyry top within a brass foliate inlaid border above a conforming frieze on a collared, turned tapering stem inlaid with foliate bands, on a similarly inlaid square plinth cast with acanthus and paterae resting on giltwood winged paw feet with castors

82cm high, 80cm wide, 48cm deep; 32 1/4 in., 31 1/2 in., 18 7/8 in.

This lot will be on view in our New Bond Street galleries on 9th, 10th 11th, 12th, 15th, 16th and 17th January 2024.

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Almost certainly commissioned by His Majesty's Government for Napoleon Bonaparte for The Drawing Room, Longwood House, St Helena, 1815-1821;

Then probably Sir General Hudson Lowe, Governor of St Helena, by whom it was shipped to his London house on Hereford Street in 1823;

Possibly acquired by the 7^th Earl of Elgin (1766-1841) and his wife Mary Nisbet, Biel Estate, East Lothian, Scotland;

By descent to Robert Adam Nisbet-Hamilton (d. 1877) and his wife Mary Bruce (d.1883);

By descent to their daughter Mary Georgina Constance Nisbet-Hamilton also known as Mrs Hamilton Ogilvy;

Inherited by her nephew Lt Col John Patrick Nisbet Hamilton Grant of Kilgraston (1872-1950) at Biel Estate, East Lothian, Scotland;

Inherited by his relative Vice-Admiral Basil Barrington Brooke (1895- 1983);

Thence by descent to the present owner.

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