SOLD - A George I Walnut Bureau Bookcase of Small Size & Outstanding Quality
Height: 78" 198cm
Width: 30 " 77cm
Depth: 20 " 52cm
The cabinet section with a moulded cavetto cross-banded cornice and cross-banded door, with herring-bone and canted corners, retaining its original beveled mirror plate and enclosing adjustable shelves, pigeon-holes and drawers.
The lower part having a sloping fall, with moulded bookrest, enclosing a fitted interior with a central cupboard, with a long shallow drawer below, flanked by further drawers and pigeon-holes. Below the fall are a further four drawers above four bracket feet with a shaped apron between.
The bookcase in remarkably original condition. The handles feet and mirror plate are all original and the surface has not been touched. Thus the bookcase is a very good colour and well patinated. Particularly noteworthy are the veneers employed. These are highly figured and quite clearly were carefully selected by the cabinet maker for maximum effect.
English, Circa 1720
Reference
John Phillips at the Cabinet, the south side of St. Paul's churchyard.
 "A Georgian Walnut Bureau Bookcase")
