Bureau bookcase
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1790
Materials
Mahogany, glass, brass handles, oak carcass
Measurements
224 x 112 x 61.5 cm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Dunster Castle, Somerset
NT 725810
Summary
A figured mahogany bureau bookcase, English, circa 1790. The upper section enclosed by a pair of glazed doors with diamond astragals below a dentil-moulded cornice, the lower section with a sloping fall enclosing a fitted interior of pigeon holes and small drawers, with a further four long drawers below having their original handles, standing on swept bracket feet.
Provenance
Attewell bequest, May 1982.