An Irish George II Mahogany Bureau Cabinet, after a Design by Thomas Chippendale, Circa 1770

This bureau cabinet is based on a design for a 'Desk & Bookcase' published as Plate CVIII in the third edition of Thomas Chippendale's Gentleman & Cabinet-Maker's Director (1762). 

The Dublin firm of P.J. Walsh & Co is recorded working at 19 and 20 Bachelor's Walk from 1862-1869, and from 1870 changed its name to P.J. Walsh & Sons and traded until 1922 (The Knight of Glin,'Dublin Directories and Trade Labels,' Furniture History 1985, p. 272). Like many later eighteenth and nineteenth-century furniture dealers they diversified their activities to include selling and restoring antique and new furniture, conducting auctions and appraisals, and organising funerals and estate clearances. They were a primary supplier to the Earl of Iveagh in the 1890s, and a pedestal desk bearing their label is in the Iveagh Bequest, Kenwood House, Hampstead.