SECOND QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

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A GEORGE II FIGURED-WALNUT BUREAU-BOOKCASE
SECOND QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
Featherbanded on the front, the arched broken pediment with three urn finials above a pair of glazed doors enclosing three adjustable shelves and three drawers, above a pair of possibly later candle-slides, the hinged slope enclosing six pigeon-holes and six small drawers around a central cupboard, above one long, two short and two long drawers, on later bun feet, lacking the interior cupboard's drawer and secret drawer, original with mirror plates on the bookcase, the handles apparently original
99 in. (251.5 cm.) high; 42½ in. (108 cm.) wide; 24¼ in. (61.5 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

The cabinet's triumphal-arched pedment reflects the George II 'Roman' style popularised by architectural publications such as James Gibbs' Book of Architecture, 1728 and B. Langley's Treasury of Designs, 1740. A drawing of an urn-capped cabinet of this pattern survives amongst the London drawings made in the 1720s by a Russian cabinet-maker (F. Martynov, 'A Russian Master Cabinet-Maker', Furniture History, 1994, p. 95, fig. 2).

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