Fine Quality Antique George I Figured Walnut Bureau with Original Handles

Antique George I quality figured walnut bureau having a quality figured walnut fall with herringbone crossbanding opening to reveal a fitted interior consisting of five walnut drawer...

Antique George I quality figured walnut Herringbone inlaid bureau having a quality antique George I walnut bureau with a walnut herringbone inlaid fall opening to reveal a fitted int...

Antique George I quality figured walnut bureau bookcase having a shaped cornice above a pair of walnut doors with original plate mirrors opening ...

Outstanding quality antique George III mahogany bureau having a figured mahogany fall with a moulded edge opening to reveal a fitted...

Antique George III quality mahogany bureau having a mahogany fall opening to reveal a fully fitted interior consisting of satinwood drawers, pigeon holes and a secret door to the cen...

Superb quality large antique George III mahogany bureau having a superb quality mahogany fall opening to reveal a fitted interior co...

A superb and exceptionally well proportioned early 18th century figured walnut ‘pagoda topped’ double dome bureau bookcase, circa 1720 England. The upper section is surmounted with what is believed to be the original solid walnut finials and soft bevelled mirror plates, opening to a removal bank of walnut veneered and feather banded drawers, cantered by pigeonholes below two shelves. Candle slides are neatly stowed below the bookcase doors to reflect the light. To the moulded bureau, the fall opens to reveal pigeonholes, long and short asymmetric drawers each beautifully veneered in figured walnut and feather banded, cantered by a cupboard door which neatly conceals an open compartment and drawer. Below the fall, two short and two long graduating oak lined drawers are each book-matched in superb sections of hand-cut figured walnut veneers over bun feet. It should be noted that this exceptional desk and bookcase, is not only of the finest cuts of figured walnut veneer but exquisitely made at the pinnacle of design which had gradually evolved predominantly in London, during the late 17thand early 18thcentury. The actual description 'desk-and-bookcase' appears to be first recorded in the accounts of the Royal cabinet-maker Gerrit Jensen (fl.1680-d.1715) who supplied several for the Royal Household from 1710 (Bowett, op. cit.), and another described as 'a walnut writing desk, the top for books and patons and glass in the doors asked' for the 5th Earl of Salisbury, Hatfield House.  Another maker of this form of desk was the London cabinet-maker John Gumley (1691-1727) who advertised in Richard Steele's Lover on April 24 1714 that he 'hath taken for a Ware-house, and furnished all the upper part of the New Exchange in the Strand' continuing with an extensive list of his stock including 'Desks and Bookcases.' In 1714 he supplied one of these in walnut to James 1st Duke of Montrose for the sum of £11. Russian cabinetwork of this period was strongly influenced by Tsar Peter I return to Russia after his studies in London. He subsequently sent twenty-four cabinetmakers who were working in Amsterdam to London to train as furniture makers. One of these cabinetmakers named Fedor Martynov made furniture for the Empress Anna Ioannovna. Martynovs drawings are almost identical to the present piece. Literature Mallett’s Great English Furniture, London: Bullfinch Press 1991, p.248, fig 287, by Lanto Synge, English Furniture 1660-1714 From Charles II to Queen Anne, by Dr Adam Bowett, Woodbridge: Antique Collector’s Club, 2002 Chapter 7 Case Furniture 1689–1714 pp.221-223 fig. 7:53 A walnut bureau bookcase of the same form and period sold from the private collection of Patricia Kluge...

For sale is a good quality antique figured walnut bureau, having a fall front opening to a fitted interior, above three oak lined drawers, standing on elegant cabriole legs the burea...

Rectangular cornice over a single door with mirror, the desk section with fold down writing surface opening to a nicely fitted interior and sliding panel opening to a well, all over ...

A very fine George I period walnut and feather banded bureau bookcase, circa 1720, the moulded cornice above a pair of mirror panelled doors, ope...

George I walnut bureau. This bureau stands upon bracket feet and features an arrangement of 2 over 2 oak lined drawers. 18th century The drawers and the fall having herringbone inlays. The interior having an assortment of drawers and pigeonholes. The bureau retails its original handles, escutcheons and loper pulls. The bureau is of a good warm antique walnut colour.

George I Walnut Bureau. This Bureau Stands Upon Bracket Feet and Features an Arrangement of 2 Over 2 Oak Lined Drawers. 18th Century The Drawers and the Fall Having Herringbone Inlays. The Interior Having an Assortment of Drawers and Pigeonholes. The Bureau Retails its Original Handles, Escutcheons and Loper Pulls. The Bureau is of a Good Warm Antique Walnut Colour.