Pedestal stand
Artist: George Bullock (circa 1778 - 1818)
Location: Abbotsford
Date: 1816
Materials: yew-wood & ebony, marble topped
Dimensions: 92 cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £1,625 (Total: £6,500)
Vendor: H Blairman & Sons Ltd
Review number: 2902 (1981)
Provenance:
Made for Sir Walter Scott; at Abbotsford House.
Description:
A pedestal stand commissioned by Sir Walter Scott to support a silver urn given him by Lord Byron. It contained bones found in sepulchres along the walls of Athens. Scott described it as 'the very handsome stand for Lord Byron's vase which our friend George Bullock has equipped me'.
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