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LATE 18TH CENTURY
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A Dutch mahogany cylinder bureau
Late 18th Century
The rectangular top above a concave frieze, above a roll-top with a green baize-lined writing-surface to the reverse, enclosing a fitted interior with a central sliding tambour-shutter, enclosing a plain interior with two drawers, flanked to each side by a sliding shelf, a drawer above a pigeon-hole above a drawer and flanked by three stepped drawers, the bombé base with three graduated drawers, on splayed legs, losses to the veneers, the roll top does not close
112cm. high x 114cm. wide x 62cm. deep
Late 18th Century
The rectangular top above a concave frieze, above a roll-top with a green baize-lined writing-surface to the reverse, enclosing a fitted interior with a central sliding tambour-shutter, enclosing a plain interior with two drawers, flanked to each side by a sliding shelf, a drawer above a pigeon-hole above a drawer and flanked by three stepped drawers, the bombé base with three graduated drawers, on splayed legs, losses to the veneers, the roll top does not close
112cm. high x 114cm. wide x 62cm. deep
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