Bureau cabinet
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1730
Materials
Walnut, brass, oak and deal construction
Measurements
194.5 x 84.5 x 52.5 cm
Place of origin
England
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Peckover House, Cambridgeshire
NT 781490
Summary
A walnut and feather banded bureau cabinet, English, circa 1730 The cabinet with a moulded cornice and a pair of arcaded panelled cupboard doors enclosing shelves and four small drawers flanking three pigeon holes and with a pair of retractable sliding candle stands. The bureau with a cross banded sloped fall enclosing a fitted interior of drawers and pigeon holes around a cupboard door and a well beneath. With two short and two long drawers below the fall, raised on shaped bracket feet, brass handles.
Provenance
Bequeathed to the National Trust in 1985 by Mrs M Tooke.