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    Important English Furniture

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    17 April 1997

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    Lot 181

    A GEORGE I WALNUT BUREAU-CABINET

    Price realised

    GBP 8,625

    Estimate

    GBP 8,000 - GBP 12,000

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    A GEORGE I WALNUT BUREAU-CABINET
    Cross and featherbanded overall, the rectangular moulded cavetto cornice above a pair of shaped arched sunk-panelled doors enclosing three adjustable shelves and formerly a run of pigeon-holes, above a pair of later candle-slides and a sloping fall-front enclosing a fitted interior with eight variously-sized small drawers and six pigeon-holes around a central door, with a brown leather-lined writing-surface and a sliding well, above two short and two long graduated drawers, on shaped bracket feet, restorations, later backboards to the lower part
    39¾ in. (99.5 cm.) wide; 91 in. (231 cm.) high; 21½ in. (54.5 cm.) deep

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    Pre-Lot Text

    THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

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