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Lot 14

A QUEEN ANNE DOUBLE-DOMED WALNUT BUREAU CABINET

inlaid with herringbone and crossbanding, the upper section with a moulded cornice over a pair of doors with arched panels formerly fitted with mirrors and enclosing a fitted interior with a cupboard, drawers and folio slides, with two candle slides below, the base with a fall flap enclosing a fitted interior of drawers over a frieze drawer and a waist moulding with two short and two long drawers below, fitted with associated gilt brass handles and escutcheons with engraved foliate decoration,

Condition Report: click here
Estimate: £2,000 - £4,000
Hammer price: £2,000
Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.

on later bracket feet, 223.5cm high x 104cm wide x 114cm deep

Provenance: According to family records, this bureau cabinet is visible in a photograph of the main bedroom circa 1914, and was probably a piece acquired by Hubert Hutchings for Sandford Orcas Manor.

In historic country house condition and heavily bleached by the sun. Numerous small repairs, losses and replacements to the veneers and mouldings. The handles probably an early replacement. The doors originally fitted with mirrored panels but now with grained wood in their place. The interior of the upper section and the base retaining the original metalwork and a rich hone colour. The bracket feet replaced and originally fitted with bun or ball feet with consequent apertures at each corner. The bureau section is designed without pull-out lopers to support the fall flap, which is intended to rest on the frieze drawer below.

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