Lot Essay
This bureau-cabinet has the unusual feature of mirrored borders on the doors of the cabinet, rather than the more usual veneered borders.
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FIRST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY, WITH LATER FITTED INTERIOR
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A GEORGE I BURR-WALNUT BUREAU-CABINET
FIRST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY, WITH LATER FITTED INTERIOR
With a broken arched pediment with later arched mirror plates below within bevelled marginal borders, enclosing a later fitted interior with a shelf and a removable compartment with pigeon-holes, drawers and enclosed cupboard, two candle-slides below, the feather-strung lower part in two sections, the sloping fall with a stay and enclosing a later undulating fitted interior with two short and three long drawers below, on later bracket-feet, one interior drawer written in ink on one side indistinctly 'Mr. WHITROD, Horseheath Lodge, nr. Linton, Cambs', written in chalk on the reverse in three places 'S1237' and '62', later handles, the cabinet interior incorporating earlier elements
97 in. (246.5 cm.) high; 41 in. (104 cm.) wide; 24½ in. (62 cm.) deep
FIRST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY, WITH LATER FITTED INTERIOR
With a broken arched pediment with later arched mirror plates below within bevelled marginal borders, enclosing a later fitted interior with a shelf and a removable compartment with pigeon-holes, drawers and enclosed cupboard, two candle-slides below, the feather-strung lower part in two sections, the sloping fall with a stay and enclosing a later undulating fitted interior with two short and three long drawers below, on later bracket-feet, one interior drawer written in ink on one side indistinctly 'Mr. WHITROD, Horseheath Lodge, nr. Linton, Cambs', written in chalk on the reverse in three places 'S1237' and '62', later handles, the cabinet interior incorporating earlier elements
97 in. (246.5 cm.) high; 41 in. (104 cm.) wide; 24½ in. (62 cm.) deep
Special notice
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