Slim Antique Mahogany Bureau Bookcase

An excellent antique Edwardian Sheraton Revival period bookcase. This was made in England, it dates from around 1900-1910 period. It is of amazing q...

A smart and very well made antique bureau bookcase of very slim proportions. This is in the Georgian style, it was made in England and dates from around the 1950s. It is of excellent quality, and is a most useful item. The drawer fronts are serpentine shaped with brass handles, the writing flap has cross banded edges and the upper doors have lovely astral glazing...

A very unusual and useful original antique Victorian bookcase. This was made in England, it dates from the 1860-80’s. It has very slim design and takes up very little floor space, w...

A lovely antique burr walnut bookcase in the Georgian style. This was made in England, it dates from around the 1930’s. It is of very goo...

A very well made antique revolving bookcase / cabinet. This was made in England, it dates from the late twentieth century. The quality is outstanding, this is an unusual size for a ...

A lovely antique cascading open bookcase. This was made in England, it dates from around the 1930’s. It is of superb quality and it is a very useful size. There is lots of storage s...

A very impressive mahogany bureau cabinet / bookcase / secretary*, with secret compartments. In the manner of Giles Grendey (1693-1780). In mahogany and parcel gilt. Mid-18th century, George II period. This English bureau cabinet displays fine, deep, rich colour and superb surface patination throughout. The top section with a broken-arch pediment and dentil cornice. The frieze well carved with Gothic arcaded blind fretwork. Centred by a later urn-shaped finial. The cabinet with two carved parcel-gilt gesso bordered ogee shaped doors. Old but apparently later mirror plates enclosing a fitted interior with eight drawers and adjustable shelves. The cleated fall, with its original lock, now fitted with a wine red, gilt-tooled writing surface revealing an exceptionally high-quality arrangement of canopied drawers and pigeon holes. The interior is centred by an arched, architectural over door...

An 18th-century mahogany bureau cabinet of impressive architectural form and lovely rich color. George II period, circa 1740. The top surmounted by a bold architectural pediment and centered by a brass finial. The two arched panel doors reveal three adjustable shelves which have candle slides below them. Furthermore, the bureau section is fitted with a stepped interior. This has two secret compartments, drawers and pigeon holes, and the fall is conventionally supported on two lopers. Lined in the best quality English oak. The blind doors of this Georgian cabinet have well-figured mahogany panels of very good rich color which reflect beautifully in the candle light. The chamfered and arched doors display a further level of sophistication and quality. The beautifully-drawn arched pediment is in perfect proportion with the rest of the cabinet / bookcase. In excellent condition overall. Architectural furniture designs on the continent commenced with the arrival of the Renaissance, and they have their origins in Roman and Greek architecture. Nb. Bureau bookcases display books, china or silver behind glazed doors, but are described more accurately as bureau cabinets when they are fitted with blind doors. We often refer to antique bookcases / cabinets as ''secretary desks'' in the US. Information on pediments: 'Illustrated Dictionary...

A very attractive and good quality George III period mahogany bureau bookcase having unusual castellated and carved cornice above pair of 13 pane astragal glazed doors, superbly figured flap and four long drawers with replacement brass oval plate handles raised on original shaped bracket feet (A fine example of a functional and elegant Georgian bureau bookcase...

A handsome early Georgian mahogany bureau bookcase with pedimented top; the bookcase section with fielded panel doors and candle slides, the b...

Antique George III quality mahogany bureau bookcase having a shaped moulded cornice with a mahogany frieze above a pair of quality mahogany astral glazed doors opening to reveal thre...

A wonderful Georgian mahogany breakfront bookcase of small proportions with astragal glazed doors and broken architectural pediment cornice, 18th century. The upper part with origina...