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Bureau Mazarin

Category

Furniture

Date

circa 1850

Materials

Ebony, brass, pine carcase, walnut drawer linings

Measurements

85 cm (H); 119 cm (W); 67.5 cm (D)

Place of origin

France

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Collection

Beningbrough Hall, North Yorkshire

NT 1190803

Summary

A brass inlaid and brass mounted ebony 'Boulle' bureau Mazarin or writing desk, French, circa 1850. Early 18th century style, the rectangular top with a brass mounted edge above seven drawers to the kneehole and a recesses cupboard, raised on square section tapered legs and brass feet, tied by twin shaped X frame stretchers, the whole profusely inlaid with brass arabesque designs.

Full description

Christopher Payne discusses French 19th century 'Boulle' furniture in 19th century European Furniture and illustrates a similar example in figure 67.

Provenance

Like other items at Beningbrough, this desk may previously have been at Holme Lacy, the inherited Scudamore house sold by the 10th Earl of Chesterfield in 1910. Beningbrough Hall was transferred to National Trust in 1958 by the Treasury in lieu of death duties following the death of Lady Chesterfield in 1957. The contents were auctioned off, but a small number of items, including this desk (then in the saloon), were purchased by the Ministry of Works and transferred to the National Trust (see auction catalogue lot 643 and Ministry of Works 'Schedule of objects given to the National Trust for preservation at Beningbrough Hall').

References

Payne, Christopher '19th Century European Furniture' ACC, Woodbridge 1989, fig.67

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