CIRCA 1715

细节

A GEORGE I WALNUT BUREAU-CABINET
CIRCA 1715
The arched broken pediment centered by a male figural finial above a pair of arched panelled doors opening to an elaborately fitted interior with an arrangement of pigeonholes, doors, drawers, secret compartments and folio slides with putto-form uprights, over a slant front enclosing a further fitted interior above four long graduated drawers, on bracket feet, pulls replaced, lacking central finial
90 in. (228.5 cm.) high, 41 in. (104 cm.) wide, 23 in. (58.5 cm.) deep

拍品专文

The bureau's elaborate fitted interior of gilt figures atop Corinthian columns recalls the famous example supplied for the Blue Bedroom at Belton House, Lincolnshire as illustrated in H. Tipping, English Homes, Period IV, vol. I, London, 1922, p. 226, fig. 290. A closely related example was sold, The Property of a Private Collector, Christie's, New York, 14 October 2004, lot 167. Another is illustrated in F. L. Hinckley, A Directory of Queen Anne, Early Georgian and Chippendale Furniture, New York, 1971, p. 133, fig. 210. A further example with similar figural columns is illustrated in L. Synge, Mallett Millennium, London, 1999, p. 38.