A George II Burr Walnut Bookcase Cabinet, Circa 1745

Possibly Walter, Lord Cunliffe of Headley;

Sotheby's London, 18 March 1966, lot 88;

With Jeremy Ltd., London;

Sotheby's New York, 16 April 2005, lot 96.

The Connoisseur, May 1967, pp. 12-13

The Connoisseur, October 1967, 'British Fortnight in Dallas, Texas to see finest English antique furniture from London', pp. 105-107, fig. I

A bureau bookcase with similar carving to the plinth moulding and paw feet is illustrated in M. Jourdain and F. Rose, English Furniture of the Georgian Period (1750-1830), London 1953, p. 113, fig. 95.