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A GEORGE I LACQUERED BRASS-MOUNTED FIGURED AND BURR WALNUT BUREAU CABINET, crossbanded overall, the cavetto cornice above a pair of doors, the later mirror plates engraved with arches, flanked by stop-fluted pilasters headed by Corinthian capitals, enclosing a fitted interior of ten concave-fronted drawers and eighteen pigeon-holes around a central recessed door enclosing six further drawers, the base with hinged slope enclosing a fitted interior of drawers, pigeon-holes and a hinged well above two short and two long drawers, the sides of each section with carrying-handles, on shaped bracket feet, restorations and some patching, eight drawers in bureau-section relined and adapted from smaller drawers, the metalwork replaced, three internal drawers in the upper section with paper labels inscribed in ink Joseph John Everett, Sarah Elizabeth Everett, Anne Everett, three drawers indistinctly inscribed in ink on the fronts, one legibly, Southern

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A GEORGE I LACQUERED BRASS-MOUNTED FIGURED AND BURR WALNUT BUREAU CABINET, crossbanded overall, the cavetto cornice above a pair of doors, the later mirror plates engraved with arches, flanked by stop-fluted pilasters headed by Corinthian capitals, enclosing a fitted interior of ten concave-fronted drawers and eighteen pigeon-holes around a central recessed door enclosing six further drawers, the base with hinged slope enclosing a fitted interior of drawers, pigeon-holes and a hinged well above two short and two long drawers, the sides of each section with carrying-handles, on shaped bracket feet, restorations and some patching, eight drawers in bureau-section relined and adapted from smaller drawers, the metalwork replaced, three internal drawers in the upper section with paper labels inscribed in ink Joseph John Everett, Sarah Elizabeth Everett, Anne Everett, three drawers indistinctly inscribed in ink on the fronts, one legibly, Southern
40in. (101.5cm.) wide; 81½in. (207cm.) high; 24½in. (62cm.) deep

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