A GEORGE II MAHOGANY BUREAU-CABINET

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A GEORGE II MAHOGANY BUREAU-CABINET
The moulded rectangular cornice with rope-twist and dentilled moulding, above a blind Gothic-fretwork frieze and a pair of shaped panelled doors with ropetwist moulding, enclosing two columns each with three sliding shelves, the middle section with a hinged slope enclosing a fitted interior with twelve mahogany small drawers, eight pigeon-holes, two secret drawers and a central mirror-panelled door enclosing a drawer and a slide, above two short drawers, the lower section with three long graduated drawers, above a further ropetwist band, on paw feet headed by scrolling acanthus, lacking four ears
95 in. (243 cm.) high; 57 in. (145 cm.) wide; 29 in. (73.5 cm.) deep

拍品专文

The serpentine panels of this bureau-cabinet relate to those of a bed, with antiquarian panelled headboard and canopy, acquired for Knebworth House, Hertfordshire in the 1740s and attributed to the Clerkenwell cabinet-maker Giles Grendey (d. 1780). The bed was sold by Lady Cobbold, in these Rooms, 14 November 1996, lot 36.

A closely related bureau-cabinet (illustrated above) is illustrated in R.W. Symonds, English Furniture from Charles II to George II, London, 1929, p. 245, fig. 210 (detail p. 191, fig. 149).