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AN UNUSUAL GEORGE II MAHOGANY ARCHITECT'S DESK
CIRCA 1740
Formed as two kneehole bureaux, one with a hinged ratcheted rectangular top enclosing a pop-up section with drawers and pigeonholes, the front with a simulated long drawer, with a drawer to the side, the other bureau with molded rectangular top above a frieze drawer fitted with a baize-lined slide, the kneeholes flanked by cupboard doors enclosing tiers of drawers with numbered escutcheons, the ends with hinged cupboard doors, on ogee bracket feet - 32in. high, 87in. wide
PROVENANCE
Sir Ernest Salter Wills, 3rd baronet, and by descent to the family
Sold Sotheby's, Littlecote, Wilshire, 22 November, 1985, lot 1159
CIRCA 1740
Formed as two kneehole bureaux, one with a hinged ratcheted rectangular top enclosing a pop-up section with drawers and pigeonholes, the front with a simulated long drawer, with a drawer to the side, the other bureau with molded rectangular top above a frieze drawer fitted with a baize-lined slide, the kneeholes flanked by cupboard doors enclosing tiers of drawers with numbered escutcheons, the ends with hinged cupboard doors, on ogee bracket feet - 32in. high, 87in. wide
PROVENANCE
Sir Ernest Salter Wills, 3rd baronet, and by descent to the family
Sold Sotheby's, Littlecote, Wilshire, 22 November, 1985, lot 1159