Lot 93
93
The Property of
A GEORGE I BLACK AND GILT-JAPANNED BUREAU-CABINET, decorated overall with chinoiserie figures, birds and animals, the double-domed cresting with cavetto cornice and later giltwood finial, above a pair of arched doors inset with bevelled mirror plates, the reverse with vases of flowers, enclosing the variously-sized drawers and two hinged semi-elliptical flaps, above two candle-slides, the base with hinged slope, decorated with two warriors on horseback and two cockerels, enclosing a fitted interior with leather-lined writing-surface, drawers and pigeon-holes, above four graduated long drawers and on later shaped bracket feet, formerly with bun feet, one mirror-glass broken at top

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A GEORGE I BLACK AND GILT-JAPANNED BUREAU-CABINET, decorated overall with chinoiserie figures, birds and animals, the double-domed cresting with cavetto cornice and later giltwood finial, above a pair of arched doors inset with bevelled mirror plates, the reverse with vases of flowers, enclosing the variously-sized drawers and two hinged semi-elliptical flaps, above two candle-slides, the base with hinged slope, decorated with two warriors on horseback and two cockerels, enclosing a fitted interior with leather-lined writing-surface, drawers and pigeon-holes, above four graduated long drawers and on later shaped bracket feet, formerly with bun feet, one mirror-glass broken at top
41in. (104cm.) wide; 56½in. (245cm.) high; 24¼in. (61.5cm.) deep

Lot Essay

A related double-arched bureau, with flower-vase door-panels and with drawer-filled cabinet in the manner of contemporary lacquer examples, was sold in these Rooms, 16 November 1989, lot 128. Its japanning is typical of the work of cabinet-makers established in the St. Paul's Churchyard area of London, such as John Belchier (d. 1753)

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