Lot Essay
A virtually identical bureau is illustrated in P. Macquoid and R. Edwards. eds. Dictionary of English Furniture, 1954, vol. I, p. 130, fig. 16. Others from the same workshop include one illustrated in R.W. Symonds, English Furniture from Charles II to George II, 1929, p. 139, fig. 85 and R.W. Symonds, 'Dressing Bureaux of the time of George I and George II', Antique Collector, May-June 1950, pp. 106, 111; H. Cescinsky, English Furniture from Gothic to Sheraton, 1937, p. 184 and H. Cescinsky, The Old-World House, Vol. I, 1924, p. 89. Another similar from the collection of Judge Irwin Untermyer is illustrated in Y. Hackenbroch, English Furniture in the Collection of Irwin Untermyer, 1958, figs. 269, 270. A further example was sold from the collection of the late Alfred H. Caspary, Parke-Bernet GAlleries, New York, 20-30 April 1955, lot 282.