CIRCA 1715-1720

Details

A GEORGE I WALNUT BUREAU-ON-STAND
CIRCA 1715-1720
The slant front opening to a fitted interior with a prospect door, pigeonholes and drawers, marked '6060' to one drawer, top drawer formerly fitted, inscribed EA and Emily Adomson on stand, later locks
36 in. (91.5 cm.) high, 25 in. (63.5 cm.) wide, 17 in. ( 43 cm.) deep

Provenance

Anonymous Sale; Sotheby's, London, 26 September 1975, lot 42.
Anonymous Sale; Christie's, New York, 13 March 1983, lot 201.
Anonymous Sale; Christie's, New York, 12 October 1996, lot 194.

Literature

G. Beard & J. Goodison, English Furniture 1500-1840, Oxford, 1987, p. 51 (illustrated).

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Lot Essay

This elegant bureau is part of a group of small scale bureaux that include a virtually identical example in P. Macquoid and R. Edwards. eds. Dictionary of English Furniture, 1954, vol. I, p. 130, fig. 16. Others from the same workshop include one illustrated in R.W. Symonds, English Furniture from Charles II to George II, 1929, p. 139, fig. 85, another in R.W. Symonds, 'Dressing Bureaux of the time of George I and George II', Antique Collector, May-June 1950, pp. 106, 111; H. Cescinsky, English Furniture from Gothic to Sheraton, 1937, p. 184 and H. Cescinsky, The Old-World House, Vol. I, 1924, p. 89.

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