A GEORGE III MAHOGANY CYLINDER BUREAU

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY CYLINDER BUREAU

Crossbanded overall and inlaid with boxwood lines, the moulded rectangular cornice above a plain panelled frieze centred by a tablet carved with a husk-trailed Neo-Classical urn, above a pair of gothic glazed doors enclosing three adjustable shelves, the cylinder enclosing a green baize-lined writing slide with central adjustable ratchet reading slope, pigeon-hole and drawers, above three long graduated drawers, and a waived apron on splayed feet, inscribed to the reverse in chalk DINING-ROOM with depository label
43½in. (113cm.) wide; 92¾in. (235.5cm.) high; 22¾in. (57.5cm.) deep

Lot Essay

The 'tambour writing table' with dressing drawers corresponds to patterns published in A. Hepplewhite and Co.'s Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1788, pls. 68 and 76. The cabinet's pointed-arch glazing pattern was published in The Cabinet-Maker's London Book of Prices, 1788, pl. 16, no. 10.

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