An Imposing Secretaire Bookcase of the English Regency Period (c. 1825 England)

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Mahogany, Brass Inlay

128.00cm wide    275.00cm high    59.00cm deep (50.39 inches wide  108.27 inches high  23.23 inches deep)

Excellent

Constructed in a well patinated mahogany, with extensive use of scrolling cut brass inlays; rising from ‘cotton reel’ feet, the base of kneehole form, with banks of graduated bow front drawers, fitted with the original oversize ‘lotus bud’ brass pulls, flanking the central cupboard, with its bow front lockable door revealing a shelved interior; the deep pull out secretaire drawer having a hinged fall front flap, revealing a fitted interior with a symmetrical arrangement of pigeon holes and drawers set about a central cupboard, with three concealed compartments, the whole with gean wood facings, and inlaid. The upper section having double lancet astragal glazing bars, which enclose an adjustable shelved interior, and, over, the cornice, with its globe capped blocks housing a hemispherical facia.