THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A NORTH ITALIAN YELLOW-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT BUREAU decorated overall with trailing foliage and floral sprays within a rouge scrolling foliate border, the waived rectangular fallfront centred by a basket of flowers beneath a shell motif enclosing a fitted similarly decorated red-painted interior with three serpentine-fronted paper-lined drawers and three pigeon holes above a well, the shaped graduated long drawers between rounded angles painted with trailing foliage flanked by panelled sides similarly decorated with a basket of flowers within a trailing foliate border, above a shaped apron centred by a scallop-shell and on cabriole legs and scrolled feet, restorations
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A NORTH ITALIAN YELLOW-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT BUREAU decorated overall with trailing foliage and floral sprays within a rouge scrolling foliate border, the waived rectangular fallfront centred by a basket of flowers beneath a shell motif enclosing a fitted similarly decorated red-painted interior with three serpentine-fronted paper-lined drawers and three pigeon holes above a well, the shaped graduated long drawers between rounded angles painted with trailing foliage flanked by panelled sides similarly decorated with a basket of flowers within a trailing foliate border, above a shaped apron centred by a scallop-shell and on cabriole legs and scrolled feet, restorations
41½in. (101.5cm.) wide; 40in. (101.5cm.) high 20¼in. (51.5cm.) deep
41½in. (101.5cm.) wide; 40in. (101.5cm.) high 20¼in. (51.5cm.) deep