λ A REGENCY ROSEWOOD

λ A REGENCY ROSEWOOD, EBONY AND BRASS MARQUETRY MIRROR

BY GEORGE BULLOCK, C.1815

the rectangular plate within an ebony moulded slip and with a brass foliate inlaid border, originally in a recess

189.3 x 143cm

Provenance

Supplied to Robert Ferguson, M.P. (d.1840) for Raith House, Kirkcaldy, Fife and by descent.

Christie's, Important English Furniture and Carpets, 6th July 2000, lot 82, sold for £23,500 (incl. fees).

Sotheby's, the Christopher Hodsoll Collection, 29th October 2002, lot 171, sold for £26,290 (incl. fees).

Catalogue Note

This pier mirror was supplied for the Drawing Room at Raith House by George Bullock to hang above a matching console cabinet with a Mona marble top as part of a 'pier-set'. It was listed in the 1895 'Inventory of the Mansion House of Raith, Kircaldy', p.46, by Alexander Dowell as a 'Rosewood and brass inlaid console cabinet, serpentine marble top, with large mirror above'. Robert Ferguson, M.P. for Fife and his new wife, the former Countess of Elgin, employed Bullock to transform their villa in the most fashionable antique taste. The linked foliate brass pattern on this mirror can be found on other items of Bullock furniture, including on the frieze of a pair of cabinets in the collection of the Duke Abercorn at Barons Court.