Table

75,5 x 137 x 89,5 cm

Oak and ebony wood inlays

The table was acquired by James Stirling, a postmodernist architect who was also among the pioneers in furniture collecting of the Regency era, in the seventies of the twentieth century. In that decade, research on Bullock was in its infancy and only thanks to the research of Clive Wainwright and Martin Levy was it possible to include this work in the English designer’s production.

A first decisive comparison was proposed with the table in the Victoria and Albert Museum designed in Gothic style by Bullock for Sir Godfrey Vassal Webster, in the context of the reconstruction of Battle Abbey, the abbey located near the sites of the Battle of Hastings. Furthermore, a drawing of the so-called ‘Wilkinson Tracings’ confirms the inclusion of this table in the corpus of Bullock and his circle.