Lot 331
GOOD GEORGE I BURR YEW AND FEATHER BANDED BUREAU BOOKCASE
CIRCA 1710
Auction: 30 June 2010 at 12:00 BST
Description
the cavetto moulded cornice above a pair of shaped fielded panel doors, opening to reveal a fitted compartmented interior flanked by small drawers, the lower section with a fall front enclosing a stepped interior with pigeon holes, drawers and a central cupboard door, over two short and three long graduated drawers, raised on bracket feet
Dimensions
84cm wide, 158cm high, 58cm deep
Footnote
Provenance:
The Estate of the Late Dr W P Dallas Ross
Note:
A similar bureau bookcase was retailed by Suffolk House Antiques and illustrated in Apollo Magazine, June 1999, page 37.
There is also a copy of a letter to Dr Dallas Ross from Dr Tessa Murdoch, Deputy Curator of the Furniture Department at the Victoria & Albert Museum, dated September 1999 and discussing this and the Suffolk House bureau. Her suggestion is that they might have been made by the London firm of Coxed & Woster (1700-1736).