Bureau
Category
Furniture
Date
1770 - 1780
Materials
Mahogany, oak and deal construction, brass and glass
Measurements
244 x 116 x 76 cm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 1398468
Summary
A mahogany bureau bookcase, English, circa 1775 the top section with a broken swan neck pediment with scrolled terminals an pierced trellis work above a pair of astragal glazed doors enclosing shelves. The burea with a cross banded fall enclosing a fitted interior of drawers and pigeon holes around a cupboard door and with two short and three long drawers below, raised on bracket feet. With oval cast brass ring handles
Provenance
Part of the Windham Collection. The hall and contents were bequeathed to the National Trust in 1969 by Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer (1906-1969).