A NORTH EUROPEAN FIELD MAPLE AND WALNUT BUREAU BOOKCASE

A NORTH EUROPEAN FIELD MAPLE AND WALNUT BUREAU BOOKCASE

POSSIBLY SWEDISH, 18TH CENTURY AND LATER

inlaid with banding, the double domed top with a pair of arched doors enclosing pigeonholes, adjustable shelves and an arrangement of fourteen drawers above a pull-out hinged slide inset with a leather writing surface with hinged supports and two inkwells, above a smaller hinged slide and three shallow drawers and a pair of candle slides, the hinged fall revealing a pull-out interior with a leather writing surface, drawers, pigeonholes and inkwell compartments, above an inverted breakfront base with an arrangement of short and long drawers on bun feet

202cm high, 106cm wide, 61cm deep

Provenance

A Private Collection, an apartment on Cadogan Square, London.