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Lot Essay
These window seats were supplied for the Drawing Room and invoiced in 1817 as follows: '2 Oak Window Seats french stuffed & covered with Pink imbos'd twilled calico welted with Brown velvet £23 2s'
They were originally supplied (as were the pair in the Library) with two alternative loose covers of brown calico and damask chintz at the same additional cost of £5 18s 2d.
In 1816 Rudolph Ackermann in The Repository of Arts praised Bullock's 'true patriotism' and noted, 'There are no woods more beautiful, or better suited to the purposes of cabinet embellishment, than those indigenous to our own country' (P. Agius, Ackermann's Regency Furniture and Interiors, 1984, p. 109).
They were originally supplied (as were the pair in the Library) with two alternative loose covers of brown calico and damask chintz at the same additional cost of £5 18s 2d.
In 1816 Rudolph Ackermann in The Repository of Arts praised Bullock's 'true patriotism' and noted, 'There are no woods more beautiful, or better suited to the purposes of cabinet embellishment, than those indigenous to our own country' (P. Agius, Ackermann's Regency Furniture and Interiors, 1984, p. 109).