A PAIR OF EDWARDIAN SATINWOOD AND MAHOGANY CYLINDER BUREAU-CABINETS

BY EDWARDS AND ROBERTS

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A PAIR OF EDWARDIAN SATINWOOD AND MAHOGANY CYLINDER BUREAU-CABINETS
By Edwards and Roberts
Inlaid overall with ebonised lines, each with three-quarter pierced brass gallery above a geometrically-glazed frieze and a pair of glazed doors enclosing a shelf, above an oval-panelled cylinder enclosing a fitted interior with a green leather writing-surface and six satinwood- fronted mahogany-lined small drawers below six pigeon-holes, the writing-surface sliding forward, above a frieze-drawer, one with printed paper label 'EDWARDS & ROBERTS UPHOLSTERY WAREHOUSES WARDOUR STREET, LONDON,' with shadow of this label on the other bureau, the drawer below a roundel band, on square tapering legs headed by oval panels and inlaid with tapering oval panels, brass caps and castors
63¼ in. (161 cm.) high; 26¾ in. (68 cm.) wide; 21¼ in. (54 cm.) deep (2)

Lot Essay

A related 'Cylinder Desk and Bookcase' with hermed and flute-inlaid legs featured in a 1792 engraving in Thomas Sheraton's The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing Book, 1793, part 3, pl. 47. A related satinwood desk was acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1910, while the handles relate to those of a dressing-table exhibited at the Museum in 1870 (M. Tomlin, Catalogue of Adam Period Furniture, London, p. 185 and 182, cat. no. U/14 and U/11). Edwards and Roberts were a fashionable Victorian furnishing firm with premises in Oxford Street as well as at 148-160 Wardour Street, London.

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