Bureau plat
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1745
Materials
Oak carcass, kingwood and purpleheart veneer, leather top and gilt bronze mounts
Measurements
77.5 x 160 x 79 cm
Place of origin
France
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Polesden Lacey, Surrey
NT 1245942
Summary
A bureau plat, French, Louis XV, circa 1740, in oak veneered with kingwood and purpleheart, restored in the nineteenth century with the addition of some of the gilt bronze mounts, the serpentine top lined with dark green leather within a gilt bronze moulded surround, above a frieze with three drawers with quartered veneer, on cabriole legs, headed by pierced acanthus leaves and terminated by foliate cast sabots.
Provenance
Date of acquisition not recorded, but probably originally at 16 Charles Street, Mayfair, Mrs Greville's London home, and bequeathed by Margaret McEwan, The Hon. Mrs Ronald Greville (1863-1942) with Polesden Lacey, to the National Trust, in memory of her father, William McEwan (1827-1913) in 1942. This item found on the probate inventory record for Charles Street chattels at Polesden Lacey, found in the Dining Room, page 13.
Marks and inscriptions
illegibly stamped underneath