Bureau cabinet
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1720
Materials
Walnut, mirror glass, brass handles, oak carcass.
Measurements
206 x 101 x 63 cm
Place of origin
England
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Trerice, Cornwall
NT 336817
Summary
A walnut double-dome bureau cabinet, English, circa 1720, cross-banded and feather-banded, with original handles, the upper section with bevelled mirror doors and candle slides just below, the interior fitted with an arrangement of pigeon holes and drawers, including a further pair of inlaid doors, the lower section with sloping desk lid enclosing a fitted interior of pigeon holes and six drawers over a well, with a further two short and two long graduated drawers below, on bracket feet.