Bureau
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1790
Materials
Plum pudding mahogany, satinwood, leather, brass castors and gallery.
Measurements
94.5 x 61 x 42 cm
Place of origin
England
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Trerice, Cornwall
NT 336761
Summary
A plum pudding mahogany and satinwood lady's cylinder bureau, English, circa 1790, the top with three-quarter pierced gothic-arch gallery, the interior fitted with three small drawers either side of pigeon holes, above a pull-out leather writing slide fitted with three dummy drawers along the back edge, the front frieze modelled as a dummy drawer and with an actual drawer to the left side, on square tapering legs joined by an undershelf and terminating in small brass castors.