Lot 84
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A GEORGE I WALNUT BUREAU-CABINET
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A GEORGE I WALNUT BUREAU-CABINET

EARLY 18TH CENTURY

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A GEORGE I WALNUT BUREAU-CABINET
EARLY 18TH CENTURY
The arched cavetto cornice above a mirrored door with re-entrant upper corners and featherbanded Ionic pilasters enclosing two shelves, above a candleslide and a bureau section with a featherbanded flap enclosing a fitted interior of pigeon-holes and drawers and two short and three long drawers, on bracket feet, the handles replaced, the mirror plate later, the capitals previously parcel-gilt
75¾ in. (192.5 cm.) high; 29½ in. (75 cm.) wide; 17½ in. (44.5 cm.) deep
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Lot Essay

The cabinet'’s mirrored 'Palladian' or 'Roman Ionic' façade relates to the work of the cabinet-maker Samuel Bennett (d. 1741) (C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, Leeds, 1996, fig. 113).

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