A GEORGE I STYLE WALNUT AND PARCEL-GILT BUREAU-CABINET

EARLY 20TH CENTURY

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A GEORGE I STYLE WALNUT AND PARCEL-GILT BUREAU-CABINET
EARLY 20TH CENTURY
The swan's neck cresting with gilt rosettes and acanthus-carved cavetto frieze above an arched, bevelled mirrored door flanked by composite capped pilasters, enclosing an architecturally fitted interior, the base with sloping fall enclosing pigeonholes around a cupboard door above four long graduated drawers on claw-and-ball feet
80½in. (204.5cm.) high, 25in. (63.5cm.) wide, 19in. (48.5cm.) deep

Provenance

with George Kernodle Inc., Washington, D.C., 1951 ($400).

Lot Essay

This piece copies in nearly every detail a bureau-cabinet at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The piece was formerly in the collections of Percival D. Griffiths and Judge Irwin Untermyer. Details of its construction and design are included in R.W. Symonds, English Furniture from Charles II to George II 1929, pp.109-115, figs.64-66, diags.6-7. Carved Georgian furniture was very much in fashion during the first decades of the twentieth century, at which time this cabinet was probably produced. Another bureau-cabinet of this design executed during this period was sold in these Rooms, 29 April 1992, lot 119.

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