Y A REGENCY ROSEWOOD AND GILT METAL MOUNTED SIDE CABINETATTRIBUTED TO GEORGE BULLOCK, CIRCA 1815With grey marble top85cm high, 115cm wide, 31cm deep George Bullock (d.1818) is one of the most recognised names in Regency cabinet making. Bullock was largely admired for his dramatic 'Grecian' forms and inventive ornamental patterns in brass or marquetry. The current bookcase is designed in the early 19th Century Grecian manner, and embellished in the French fashion with festive trophies, evoking bucolic poetry. Ackermann considered that furniture should be 'a source of delightful contemplation' and explained that the artist, who designed the sideboard had bestowed upon it 'the result of his studies amongst the works of the Greeks and Romans, by which his designs have become classical and imposing'. Ackermann had previously illustrated a piece of furniture in this style that was executed by the cabinet-maker John Durham, who had recently succeeded to the Catherine Street workshops of Messrs Morgan and Sanders (P. Agius, op. cit., pl. 136).