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A DUTCH COLONIAL HARDWOOD CYLINDER BUREAU CABINET
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A DUTCH COLONIAL HARDWOOD CYLINDER BUREAU CABINET

LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY BATAVIAN

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A DUTCH COLONIAL HARDWOOD CYLINDER BUREAU CABINET
Late 18th/early 19th century, probably Batavian
The pair of glazed astragal doors possibly renewed, the lower part with a fall enclosing a fitted interior and a slide, with restoration and alterations
98½in. (250cm.) high, 44in. (112cm.) wide, 22in. (56cm.) deep
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Lot Essay

The bureau cabinet with similarities as illustrated in Het Netherlands Koloniale Meubel by J Terwen de Loos, Studie over meubels in de voormalige Nederlandse Koloniën Indonesie en Sri Lanka, fig 61, p 105, with further similarities to a cylinder bureau illustrated in Domestic Interiors in the Cape and in Batavia, 1602-1795, fig 38, p 107, and also a commode, fig 39, p 109.
Cf also Furniture from Indonesia, Sri Lanka and India, 1985, by J Veenendaal.

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