A GEORGE II WALNUT BUREAU by Henry Bell

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A GEORGE II WALNUT BUREAU by Henry Bell

The rectangular top above a hinged slope with moulded edge enclosing a fitted interior of four drawers and pigeon-holes, above four graduated long drawers and on shaped bracket feet, with paper label of Early 18th Century English Furniture Kent Gallery Ltd 44 Conduit Street London W.1. and the top drawer also with paper trade label of Henry Bell at the WHITE SWAN against The South Gate in St. Pauls (sic) Church Yard London. Makes and Sells all sorts of ye finest Cabinet Goods, [all so]rts of Looking Glasses, Coach Glasses, & Chairs of all sorts, at Reasonable Rates. [N.B. Old G]lasses [new] Worked & made up Fas[hionable.]
30in. (76cm.) wide; 39½in. (100cm.) high; 19in. (48cm.) deep

Lot Essay

Henry Bell is recorded at this address 1736-1740. He was the successor in business of Coxed and Woster (see: The Dictionary of English Furniture Makers, Leeds, 1986, p. 61). Heal comments that this engraved label was a great advance from the wood-cuts standard at the time (see: A. Heal, The London Furniture Makers, London, 1953, p. 13, and for an illustration of a well-preserved impression of this label, p. 6)

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