Lot 241
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A QUEEN ANNE WALNUT AND BURR-WALNUT BUREAU CABINET
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A QUEEN ANNE WALNUT AND BURR-WALNUT BUREAU CABINET

CIRCA 1710, TOP AND BASE ASSOCIATED

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A QUEEN ANNE WALNUT AND BURR-WALNUT BUREAU CABINET
CIRCA 1710, TOP AND BASE ASSOCIATED
The molded cornice above two doors with later bevelled mirror plates, enclosing a fitted interior with an arrangement of shelves, pigeon holes, drawers and candle slides, above a slope-front enclosing an inset green-velvet writing surface, pigeon holes, drawers, a secret drawer and a well, above two small drawers and two graduated drawers, on later bun feet, with Stuart and Turner Ltd trade label, inventory label inscribed D.R. 51.1028, later brasses, possibly with alterations to the interior arrangement of the upper section
81 in. (205.5 cm.) high, 40 ½ in. (103 cm.) wide, 23 ½ in. (59.5 cm.) deep
Provenance
By repute, David Lloyd George, First Earl of Lloyd-George of Dwyfor (1863-1945), British Prime Minister.
Acquired from Stuart and Turner, London, 1948.
Literature
D. Fennimore et al., The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection: Decorative Arts, New York, 1992, vol. IV, p. 262, no. 265.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

This particular piece, which we bought from Cecil Turner in 1948, had belonged to former Prime Minister David Lloyd George. It has occupied a position of prominence in our living room at 146 East 65th Street ever since we acquired it.
D. R.
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