細節
A GEORGE II WALNUT BUREAU
BY HENRY BELL, 1736-40
The rectangular top above a hinged slope with moulded edge enclosing a fitted interior of four drawers and pigeon-holes, above four graduated long drawers and on shaped bracket feet, with paper label of 'Early 18th Century English Furniture Kent Gallery Ltd 44 Conduit Street London W.1.' and the top drawer also with paper trade label of 'Henry Bell at the WHITE SWAN' against 'The South Gate in St. Pauls (sic) Church Yard London. Makes and Sells all sorts of ye finest Cabinet Goods, [all so]rts of Looking Glasses, Coach Glasses, & Chairs of all sorts, at Reasonable Rates. [N.B. Old G]lasses [new] Worked & made up Fas[hionable.]', labelled to reverse 'Pickfords/Brooks'
39 ½ in. (100 cm.) high; 30 in. (76 cm.) wide;19 in. (48 cm.) deep
來源
Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 6 July 1995, lot 77.
出版
A. Heal, The London Furniture Makers, London, 1953, p. 13, and for an illustration of a well-preserved impression of this label, p. 6.
C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700 - 1840, Leeds, 1996, p. 93, fig. 84.
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