Bureau Mazarin
Category
Furniture
Date
1800 - 1899
Materials
Ebonised wood, parcel-gilding, tortoiseshell, pewter, brass, glass
Measurements
84.5 x 102.5 x 61.5 cm
Place of origin
France
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Sizergh Castle, Cumbria
NT 998119
Summary
A tortoiseshell, brass and pewter-inlaid 'bureau mazarin', or writing table, 19th century, in Louis XIV style. With a rectangular top above two banks of three short drawers flanking a central drawer with a recessed cupboard door below. The shaped aprons with pendant tassels, and raised on eight tapering square-section legs united by 'X-shaped stretchers and with parcel-gilt and ebonized bun feet. Elaborately decorated all-over with figures, animals and foliated scrolls and arabesques; the top centred by a goddess in a carriage drawn by four horses. With later plate glass top.
Provenance
Given by Henry Hornyold Strickland (1890 – 1975) with Sizergh Castle and its estates in 1950.