BY JAMES SHOOLBRED & CO., CIRCA 1880

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AN ENGLISH ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD BUREAU PLAT
By James Shoolbred & Co., Circa 1880
The banded shaped rectangular top with tooled green leather writing surface, above a conforming serpentine apron inset on one side with a long central mahogany-lined drawer flanked by a pair of small drawers, on tapering cabriole legs headed by rocaille ormolu angles over chutes and similarly-cast sabots, each drawer stamped JAS SHOOLBRED & CO, one drawer with impressed 2980
30½in. (77.5cm.) high; 41½in. (105.5cm.) wide; 25in. (63.5cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

James Shoolbred & Co. of Tottenham Court Road began as a small draper's business, eventually expanding to become one of the first large department stores in London. The firm started manufacturing high quality furniture circa 1870, for which they were given a Royal warrant by the mid-1880s. Shoolbred exhibited "a very extensive selection of items" in the 1878 Paris Universal Exhibition.

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