A WILLIAM AND MARY BURR-WALNUT AND WALNUT BUREAU-BOOKCASE

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN (Lots 89-100)

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A WILLIAM AND MARY BURR-WALNUT AND WALNUT BUREAU-BOOKCASE
Cross and feather-banded overall, the rectangular moulded cavetto cornice above a pair of quarter-veneered hinged doors enclosing two rows of shelves, each with three adjustable shelves, the lower section with a fall-flap enclosing a fitted interior of four small drawers and ten pigeon-holes around a central sliding-well and brown leather-lined writing-surface, above a pair of short drawers and two long graduated drawers, on bun feet, with two printed paper labels to the reverse inscribed 'NICKS CO., LTD./PAIGNTON/C6776' and 'C6774', with printed and typed dealer's label inscribed 'H.W. KEIL LTD/BROADWAY, WORCS./STOCK/No C.D.715.18.C.1700/17th & 18th CENTURY FURNITURE/WORKS OF ART' and typed description, with further paper label inscribed in ink 'CD715/Bureau', restorations
24½ in. (103 cm.) wide; 78¼ in. (198.5 cm.) high; 24¼ in. (61.5 cm.) deep

Lot Essay

A related cabinet, but with mirrored-doors, was supplied to Erdigg, Denbighshire circa 1717 by John Pardoe (d. 1748) and described as 'a large wallt. writing Desk and Book Case with Looking Glass doors...9.0.0.' (M. Drury, 'Early Eighteenth-Century Furniture at Erddig', Apollo, July 1978, p. 53, fig. 13).

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