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Lucy Johnson
Furniture showroom in Burford, Oxfordshire
Gallery near Snape, Suffolk
Burford
England

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Website www.lucy-johnson.com, www.bada.org

An unusual, late-18th century, mahogany estate bureau fitted with numerous secret drawers (1750 to 1800 England)

Reference no. 3253
An unusual, late-18th century, mahogany estate bureau fitted with numerous secret drawers

Dimensions

94.00cm wide    107.00cm high    61.00cm deep (37.01 inches wide  42.13 inches high  24.02 inches deep)

Description / Expertise

The top fitted with a removable gallery with fine brass filigree depicting lion heads and crowns amongst trailing stems. The mahogany, fall-front fitted with a later writing slope, and original brass hinges. The fitted interior revealing a shelf faced with a moulded edge, above three, painted drawers with turned, painted columns interposed. The pine drawers and interior lined with the original blue and red paper. The brass lock and hasp later. The painted pine, frieze with a central, secret compartment and reeded, moulding simulating two false drawers above two working drawers with secret drawers behind. The escutcheons original, the handles replaced. The sides decorated with reeded moulding to simulate panels and one false drawer at the front with working drawers at the back. The back with two secret drawers, lined with red paper at the front. Standing on tapering legs decorated with a reeded moulding. Excellent original colour and patina. English, second half of the 18th century.

Price

gbp 2500 (Pound Sterling)

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