IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 95835 accession number: M.16-1980 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 10 August 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Side cabinet of larchwood and ebony with gilt brass mounts and boulle work. Rectangular standing on a low plinth, the top of Glen Tilt marble, bordered on the front and sides with a brass wreath moulding. The two panelled doors each enclose six larchwood tiered drawers constructed with side runners. The doors are veneered with larchwood surrounds and a narrow border of ebony framing a boulle work panel in contre-partie of formal flower with foliage above and below. The corners of each door and of the panelled larchwood sides are decorated with applied brass mounts in the form of a stylised anthemium and scrolling leaves. The plinth is flanked at each side by free-standing turned columns of larch and ebony with bands of boulle work in premiere partie, and applied brass lotus and acanthus leaf mounts. The top of the plinth is decorated with styhlised anthemia in premiere partie boulle work, and the shaped apron and bracket supports are similarly decorated: on the front wtih a central anthemion linked to a floriated scroll at each end, and on the sides with two floriated scrolls. object type: Rectangular side cabinet of larchwood and ebony with gilt brass mounts and boulle work, and Glen Tilt marble top. Behind double doors the interior is fitted with two sets of six drawers on sliding runners. title: side cabinet NOTES ----- type: history note value: The 4th Duke of Atholl; perhaps his widow as Mrs. Bagshawe, near Stafford; Mrs. C. Adams, probably of Bristol or Weston-super-Mare; Temple Williams, Ltd., Haunch of Venison Yard, Brook Strret, London, W1, from whom purchased. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Purchased with the Gow Fund and contributions from the National Art Collections Fund, and the Regional Fund administered by the Victoria and Albert Museum STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/95835 PEOPLE ------------------- 4th Duke of Atholl (1755-1830) SUBJECTS ------------------- Dunkeld palmette palmette TECHNIQUES ---------- moulded TECHNIQUES ---------- applied TECHNIQUES ---------- veneering CATEGORIES ------ category: furniture DATING ------ creation date: 1817 - 1817 creation date earliest: 1817 creation date latest: 1817 culture: George III culture: 19th Century, Early# CREATORS -------- maker: Bullock, George DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 46 dimension: Height units: cm value: 87.2 dimension: Width units: cm value: 120.4 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: The National Art Collections Fund at the Fitzwilliam Museum, An Exhibition to celebrate the Fund's 85th Anniversary title: Treasures from the Fitzwilliam CITATIONS -------- National Art-Collections Fund Annual Report 1980 Identifying a Regency Cabinet, A Recently Discovered Piece by George Bullock Why a fashionable cabinet-maker was forgotten fro 150 years Museums Journal Regency Furniture Recent acquisitions by the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge National Art Collections Fund Exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum The National Art-Collections Fund at the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, Eighty-fifth Anniversary Exhibition from 11 April to 19 June 1988 George Bullock Cabinet Maker Treasures from the Fitzwilliam: ''The Increase of Learning and other great Objects of that Noble Foundation'' Treasures of the Fitzwilliam Museum Important English Furniture including Property from the Collection of the late Helena Hayward OBE FSA Regency Antiques The work of George Bullock, cabinet-maker, in Scotland: 1 Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840 George Bullock's Partnership with Charles Fraser, 1813-1818, and the Stock-in-Trade Sale, 1819 Furniture and Works of Art, Summer 2000 Furniture and Works of Art --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/M_16_1980_281_29.jpg height: 607 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/mid_M_16_1980_281_29.jpg height: 399 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/M_16_1980_281_29.jpg height: 607 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/preview_M_16_1980_281_29.jpg height: 200 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/M_16_1980_282_29.jpg 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