Apter-Fredericks

Important 18th & 19th Century Antique Furniture

Satinwood

A George III Satinwood Console Table
A Fine and Rare George III Satinwood & Marquetry Bonheur du Jour
A Regency Period Rosewood & Parcel-Gilt Side-Cabinet
A George III Sheraton Period Oval Tray
A George III Satinwood Drum Table
A George III Satinwood, Harewood, Burr-Yew and Marquetry Breakfront Bookcase Attributed to Mayhew & Ince
A George III Parcel-Gilt and Painted Satinwood Pier Table
A George III Satinwood Bonhuer du Jour in the Manner of George Simson
An Exceptional Eighteenth Century Dutch Centre Table
A Rare Pair of George III Sheraton Period Satinwood Pole Screens
A George III Satinwood and Decorated Bookcase
A Pair of George III Adam Period Rosewood Semi-Elliptical Console Tables
A George III Sycamore, Tulipwood Rosewood and Marquetry Pembroke Table
A Fine Pair of George III Satinwood Card Tables
A George III Satinwood "Harlequin" Pembroke Table in the Manner of Henry Kettle
A George III Period Personal Weighing Machine or 'Sanctorius's Balance'
A George III Rolled Paperwork Box, decorated by Mary Earnshaw of Wakefield in 1795
A Pair of George III Period Satinwood, Decorated and Parcel-Gilt Side Tables
A Fine Pair of Harewood And Inlaid Side Tables by William Gates
An Important Regency Mahogany Sideboard With a Pair of Pedestals en Suite. Attributed to George Oakley
A George III Satinwood Bonhuer du Jour in the Manner of George Simson

A George III Satinwood Bonhuer du Jour in the Manner of George Simson

Height: 4' 3" 131.5cm
Width: 33" 81cm
Depth: 18" 46cm

The sliding and removable superstructure with a pair of doors revealing mahogany beaded pigeonholes and small drawers with ivory handles, the folding top above a sectioned frieze drawer with a further recessed drawer below, inlaid throughout with narrow tulipwood bandings and stringing, with finely figured West Indian satinwood veneers throughout.

English, 1790

This piece is very similar to a lady's secretary and cabinet by George Simson, illustrated in Christopher Gilbert's Pictorial Dictionary of Marked English Furniture, 1700-1840, p 422, plate 840.