A LATE GEORGE III ENGRAVED IVORY AND EBONY INLAID ROSEWOOD BUREAU**

THE BUREAU LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY AND INCORPORATING EARLIER ITALIAN MARQUETRY PANELS ONE PANEL SIGNED MICHAEL SADLER, ROMA, AND DATED 1651

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A LATE GEORGE III ENGRAVED IVORY AND EBONY INLAID ROSEWOOD BUREAU**
The bureau late 18th/early 19th century and incorporating earlier Italian marquetry panels one panel signed Michael Sadler, Roma, and dated 1651
The crossbanded slant lid decorated with floral inlaid panels and a chequer edge, enclosing a gilt-tooled tan leather-inset cartouche-shaped writing suface with bold chequered edge inset with an engraved plaque inscribed Michael Sadler fecit roma 1651, with an arrangement of variously sized engraved ivory and ebony drawers and pigeonholes around a central bank of seven drawers, the back right side enclosing three secret drawers, the case fitted with four further long graduated drawers, conformingly inlaid with the lid, raised on bracket feet, the drawers with the exception of the central interior bank lined in cedar
20in. (102cm.) high, 44in. (112cm.) wide, 22½in. (57cm.) deep

拍品專文

With its decoration of floral ebony and ivory inlay, most probably taken from a seventeenth century Italian cabinet, this bureau reflects the popular 'antiquarian' taste most usually associated with connoisseurs in the early nineteenth century. Sparked by the excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum towards the middle of the eighteenth century, there was continuing interest well into the mid- nineteenth century. With many of the wealthy, educated and artistic members of society undertaking the 'Grand-tour', artifacts, relics and antiquities were brought back to England to be displayed or incorporated in the decorative schemes of the most fashionable interiors. Much of the furniture that followed in the early nineteenth century was designed around fanciful and imaginative 'Greek', 'Roman' or 'Egyptian' styles favored by Thomas Hope, Charles Heathcote Tatham and Percier and Fontaine.