EARLY 18TH CENTURY

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A GEORGE I WALNUT BUREAU-CABINET
EARLY 18TH CENTURY
Cross and feather-banded throughout, the ogee cavetto-moulded cornice with three later turned finials, above a pair of arched doors with bevelled mirror plates, enclosing four adjustable shelves and six feather-banded drawers and with a candle-slide, the fall-front enclosing nine drawers and a green leather-lined writing-surface, above two short and two long graduated drawers, on later bracket feet, the handles later
92½ in. (235 cm.) high; 39 in. (99 cm.) wide; 21 in. (54 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

The bureau's urn-capped bookcase, with its triumphal-arched temple pediment serpentined in an ogival manner, is designed in the George I 'Roman' fashion such as B. Langley later popularised with his, City and Country Builder's and Workman's Treasury of Designs, 1740 (pl. CX111). This pediment pattern also featured in a bureau drawing made in London in the 1720s by a Russian craftsman in the employ of Peter the Great, and which is thought to have been made in the Strand workshops of Peter Miller of the Savoy (see F. Martynov, 'A Russian Master Cabinet Maker', Furniture History, 1994, p. 95, fig. 1). The signature of the Aldermanbury cabinet-maker William Palleday has also been recorded on another cabinet with similar architecture (see C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture, Leeds, 1996, fig. 704)

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