SECOND QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

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A GEORGE II MAHOGANY BUREAU-CABINET
SECOND QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
The open pediment above a pair of panelled doors enclosing a fitted interior of pigeon-holes, mahogany-lined drawers and folio-racks around a central door with a bevelled mirror, with two candle-slides above a flap enclosing a fitted interior of pigeon-holes and mahogany-lined drawers around a door with column drawers above a well with sliding cover, the base with two short and two long drawers, on bracket feet, the lock stamped 'I. BRAMAHS PATENT', replacements to the feet and lock
93½ in. (237.5 cm.) high; 41¼ in. (105 cm.) wide; 23 in. (58.5 cm.) deep (4)

Provenance

The same Northumberland family since the 18th century.
Haughey Antiques, Cumbria, from whom bought by the present owner in 1996.

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis

Lot Essay

The vase-decked cabinet, with its elegant Tuscan arched and hollowed temple pediment, is designed in the George II 'Roman' fashion adopted from Inigo Jones and popularised by Lord Burlington and the architect Isaac Ware's, Some Designs of Inigo Jones and others, 1733. A design for a related, but more elaborate, bureau-cabinet was made at this period by the London-trained Russian cabinet-maker Fedor Martynov (N. Iurevna Guseva, 'Fedor Martynov, Russian Master Cabinet Maker', Furniture History, 1994, p. 95, fig. 2).

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