Lot 92
92
A GEORGE I FIGURED WALNUT DOUBLE-DOMED BUREAU-CABINET with moulded cornice, lacking finials, above a pair of arched mirror-glazed doors, each with later bevelled plate cut with stylised triple-leaf, enclosing an interior fitted with pigeon-holes and seventeen variously- sized drawers flanking a pair of composite half-columns with giltmetal capitals and plinths and a pair of arched doors enclosing eight further drawers, above a pair of candle-slides, and a hinged slope cross and feather-banded and enclosing a fitted interior of pigeon-holes and concave-fronted drawers and a green leather writing-surface and a well, above two further short drawers and two long drawers and on later bun feet, the mirror backboards possibly replaced, restorations

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A GEORGE I FIGURED WALNUT DOUBLE-DOMED BUREAU-CABINET with moulded cornice, lacking finials, above a pair of arched mirror-glazed doors, each with later bevelled plate cut with stylised triple-leaf, enclosing an interior fitted with pigeon-holes and seventeen variously- sized drawers flanking a pair of composite half-columns with giltmetal capitals and plinths and a pair of arched doors enclosing eight further drawers, above a pair of candle-slides, and a hinged slope cross and feather-banded and enclosing a fitted interior of pigeon-holes and concave-fronted drawers and a green leather writing-surface and a well, above two further short drawers and two long drawers and on later bun feet, the mirror backboards possibly replaced, restorations
43½in. (110cm.) wide; 86in. (219cm.) high; 24¾in. (63cm.) deep

Lot Essay

The bureau's cornice, echoed by those of the interior compartments of the bureau and cabinet section, is arched in the 'Louis XIV' manner introduced by the architect J. H. Mansart (d. ....). Those surmounting the mirror-plates are supported by the serpentined brackets, which feature on a stained burr-elm bureau-cabinet attributed to Messrs. Coxed and Woster, and sold Sotheyb's, 1 November 1963, lot 171. G. Coxed and Thomas Woster (fl. circa 1710-30), cabinet-makers of 'The White Swan', St. Paul's Churchyard, stated on their trade-card that they made and sold 'Cabinet, Book Cases, Chests of Drawers, Scutoires and Looking-glasses of all sorts'; and their label features on a related cabinet, illustrated R. Edwards and M. Jourdain, Georgian Cabinet-Makers, London, 1950, fig. 212

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