Lot 153
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A GENOESE WALNUT BUREAU CABINET
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A GENOESE WALNUT BUREAU CABINET

MID 18TH CENTURY

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A GENOESE WALNUT BUREAU CABINET
MID 18TH CENTURY
With a foliate rockwork cresting and a pair of panelled doors enclosing an interior of drawers and pigeon holes and with two candle slides, the fallfront revealing a fitted interior and with two short and three long serpentine fronted drawers below
111in. (282cm.) high, 52in. (133cm.) wide, 23½in. (59cm.) deep
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No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium, which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

The distinctive projecting angles and simple metal handles and escutcheons are characteristic of Genoese cabinet furniture; with similarities to a bureau cabinet and commode illustrated in Il Mobile del Settecento, Italia, Documenti d'Antiquariato, pp.48-49, and a bureau cabinet from the Estate of the Late Giuseppe Rossi, sold on 10th March 1999 by Sotheby's, London, lot 193, illustrated Vol I, p.266.

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