Bureau bookcase
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1715
Materials
Oak carcase with burr walnut veneers, the drawers to bureau lined with cedar, brass escutcheons
Measurements
216.5 x 110 cm
Place of origin
England
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Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1127994
Summary
A walnut-veneered bureau bookcase, English, circa 1715, the cornice, door glass, plinth and handle pulls later, and having a moulded cornice above a pair of doors veneered in a herringbone pattern and with half-round beading edging glazing, enclosing shelves. The bureau with double-bead moulding surrounding the hinged fall, enclosing open compartments and small drawers, a long drawer below, all above a pair of drawers, and two small cupboards faced with falling hinged drawer fronts, a further long deep drawer below. Raised on a later plinth.
Provenance
By descent until, following the death of Edward William Spencer Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire (1895 - 1950), Hardwick Hall and its contents were accepted by HM Treasury in part payment of death duties and transferred to the National Trust, in 1959.