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AN ITALIAN OLIVEWOOD MINIATURE BUREAU CABINET
Banded overall in tulipwood, the shaped and moulded pediment surmounted by pierced C-scrolls and foliage and centred by a shaped mirror-plate headed and at the base by two portrait-heads, above two shaped and glazed doors with figure-heads to the top and enclosing a fitted interior with ten variously-sized drawers and recesses with balustrades, above two short drawers and two candle-slides, the bureau section with a shaped slanting writing-slope enclosing a fitted interior with two drawers and three doors above a sliding well concealing a further drawer, the shaped angles with two curved drawers above the frieze with two sprung drawers and three long shaped drawers, the concave sides to the top with a door headed by a figure-head above two short drawers and the lower section with a further door, on a moulded and shaped plinth and foliate bracket feet, restorations and two drawers blocked
37½ in. (95 cm.) high
Banded overall in tulipwood, the shaped and moulded pediment surmounted by pierced C-scrolls and foliage and centred by a shaped mirror-plate headed and at the base by two portrait-heads, above two shaped and glazed doors with figure-heads to the top and enclosing a fitted interior with ten variously-sized drawers and recesses with balustrades, above two short drawers and two candle-slides, the bureau section with a shaped slanting writing-slope enclosing a fitted interior with two drawers and three doors above a sliding well concealing a further drawer, the shaped angles with two curved drawers above the frieze with two sprung drawers and three long shaped drawers, the concave sides to the top with a door headed by a figure-head above two short drawers and the lower section with a further door, on a moulded and shaped plinth and foliate bracket feet, restorations and two drawers blocked
37½ in. (95 cm.) high