Lot 829
829
AN OYSTER-VENEERED WALNUT AND SIMULATED ROSEWOOD SECRETAIRE A ABATTANT, the rectangular crenellated cornice above a geometrically-inlaid fall-front and pair of pleated silk-lined doors on bracket feet, adapted from an early 18th century drop front secretaire, probably in the early 19th century

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AN OYSTER-VENEERED WALNUT AND SIMULATED ROSEWOOD SECRETAIRE A ABATTANT, the rectangular crenellated cornice above a geometrically-inlaid fall-front and pair of pleated silk-lined doors on bracket feet, adapted from an early 18th century drop front secretaire, probably in the early 19th century
34in. (86cm.) wide; 67in. (170cm.) high; 17¾in. (45cm.) deep

Lot Essay

This cabinet is an antiquarian reconstruction of a late 17th or early 18th Century secretaire, presumably originally on a stand. The incorporation of a crenellated cornice and pleated silk-backed doors suggests that this reconstruction happened fairly early in the 19th Century

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