A QUEEN ANNE WALNUT KNEEHOLE BUREAU

A QUEEN ANNE WALNUT KNEEHOLE BUREAU

C.1710

the fall front with feather banding and enclosing a fitted interior above a well, the kneehole with an ogee arch and a central cupboard flanked by two runs of three drawers with feather banding and brass swing handles, on bun feet

93cm high, 76cm wide, 48.5cm deep

Provenance

Purchased from Turpin's Antiques, Hungerford, 7th June 2001, for £14,000.

The selected contents of Dinton Hall, Buckinghamshire.

Catalogue Note

For similar transitional bureaus see: Dreweatts, 25th March 2009, Furniture, Works of Art and Carpets, lot 140 and Bonhams, 23 August 2007, Scottish Sale, lot 1180.

Literature

See Adam Bowett, English Furniture 1660-1714, p.220, pl. 7:50 for a similar bureau, where described as a ‘desk-with-drawers’ and dated to 1700-15.