Furniture, Works of Art & Clocks & The Age of Oak - 01 Oct 2025
A FINE EARLY GEORGE III MAHOGANY BUREAU BOOKCASE
£4,000 - £6,000
A FINE EARLY GEORGE III MAHOGANY BUREAU BOOKCASE
C.1770
the detachable broken pediment above a pair of bevelled mirror arched doors enclosing a fitted interior with pigeonholes, drawers, slides and a central cupboard door flanking secret pilasters drawers, flanked by a pair of stop-fluted pilasters with a pair of candleslides above a hinged fall revealing a fitted interior of pigeonholes and drawers, flanking a concave cupboard door inlaid with a sunburst, a pair of inlaid secret pilaster compartments above four long drawers on ogee bracket feet
256.6cm high, 125.7cm wide, 64.5cm deep
Provenance
The Crutchley Family of Mappercombe Manor, Nettlecombe, Bridport, Dorset.