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ROME, EARLY 18TH CENTURY
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AN ITALIAN FIGURED WALNUT BUREAU CABINET
Rome, early 18th Century
The shaped arched moulded cornice with four turned finials, above a bevelled mirror and a pair of shaped arched mirror-panelled doors enclosing a fitted interior with a central cupboard enclosing five pigeon holes and four small drawers flanked by spirally turned Corinthian columns concealing secret drawers and below apsidal secret drawers, surrounded by seven pigeon holes, eight folio holes and nine small drawers, above a pair of candle slides, the lower section with a hinged slope enclosing a fitted interior of four small drawers, two column drawers, eight pigeon holes and a sliding well centred by a cupboard enclosing a further drawer, above two short and two long drawers, on shaped bracket feet, each side with three panels, the whole separating into three sections, remounted, lacking finials, the mirror plates probably replaced
92 ½ in. (234.5 cm.) high; 42 ½ in. (108 cm) wide, 25 ¼ in. (64 cm) deep
Rome, early 18th Century
The shaped arched moulded cornice with four turned finials, above a bevelled mirror and a pair of shaped arched mirror-panelled doors enclosing a fitted interior with a central cupboard enclosing five pigeon holes and four small drawers flanked by spirally turned Corinthian columns concealing secret drawers and below apsidal secret drawers, surrounded by seven pigeon holes, eight folio holes and nine small drawers, above a pair of candle slides, the lower section with a hinged slope enclosing a fitted interior of four small drawers, two column drawers, eight pigeon holes and a sliding well centred by a cupboard enclosing a further drawer, above two short and two long drawers, on shaped bracket feet, each side with three panels, the whole separating into three sections, remounted, lacking finials, the mirror plates probably replaced
92 ½ in. (234.5 cm.) high; 42 ½ in. (108 cm) wide, 25 ¼ in. (64 cm) deep
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