Details
A GEORGE I WALNUT BUREAU-BOOKCASE
CIRCA 1720
The broken arched pediment surmounted by three urn finials and with inlaid compass, above a pair of arched bevelled glazed doors cut with stars and enclosing an elaborately fitted interior of drawers, folio slides and a central cabinet door, over a pair of candleslides, the slant lid enclosing a similarly fitted interior with a well, above two short and two long drawers, on bracket feet (restorations to feet)- 97in.(246cm.) high, 40in.(102cm.) wide, 23½in.(60cm.) deep
CIRCA 1720
The broken arched pediment surmounted by three urn finials and with inlaid compass, above a pair of arched bevelled glazed doors cut with stars and enclosing an elaborately fitted interior of drawers, folio slides and a central cabinet door, over a pair of candleslides, the slant lid enclosing a similarly fitted interior with a well, above two short and two long drawers, on bracket feet (restorations to feet)- 97in.(246cm.) high, 40in.(102cm.) wide, 23½in.(60cm.) deep
Provenance
The Collection of Harold Duane Jacobs, Baltimore, Maryland, sold Sotheby's New York, 21 November 1981, lot 221.