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A George I Brass-Mounted Burr Walnut Small Bureau on Stand, Circa 1725

No reserve

Auction Closed

October 15, 06:30 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

the slant front enclosing an interior with central cupboard door flanked by two pigeonholes and six small drawers with inlaid borders, above three drawers with later locks stamped IVE & Co; the top drawer previously fitted; on shell-carved cabriole legs with pad feet; marked '6060' to one drawer; inscribed EA and Emily Adomson on stand


height 36 in.; width 26 in.; depth 17 1/2 in.

91.5 cm; 66 cm; 44.5 cm

Sotheby's London, 26 September 1975, lot 42;

Christie's New York, 12 March 1983, lot 201;

Christie's New York, 12 October 1996, lot 194;

J.E. Safra, New York;

Christie's New York, 18 October 2017, lot 611.

Geoffrey Beard & Judith Goodison, English Furniture 1500-1840, Oxford 1987, p. 51 

Two almost identical small bureaux are illustrated in Ralph Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, Woodbridge 1954, vol. I, p. 130, fig. 16 and Herbert Cescinsky, English Furniture from Gothic to Sheraton, Grand Rapids 1929, p. 199.