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A GEORGE II PARCEL-GILT FIGURED AND BURR-WALNUT BUREAU-CABINET
CIRCA 1730
A GEORGE II PARCEL-GILT FIGURED AND BURR-WALNUT BUREAU-CABINET CIRCA 1730 The swan’s neck cornice with fruited finials above a foliate frieze and door with arched beveled mirror plate headed by a masked scroll and flanked by fluted Corinthian pilasters, the interior centered by a mirrored prospect door with pediment and enclosing pigeonholes and three ranges of small drawers, flanked by folio compartments, all above three small drawers, the sloping flap enclosing a keystone-inlaid prospect door, flanked by gilt-lacquered brass pilasters hiding a secret pullout compartment on the left (lacking compartment on the right), further flanked by pigeonholes and six drawers, and with green velvet writing surface, the front of the case fitted with four long drawers, the uppermost with removable compartmentalized tray, on foliate-carved claw-and-ball feet, two interior drawers replaced, probably by the Langhorne brothers of Kew under the direction of R. W. Symonds for Percival Griffiths (one of these is to the upper section behind the prospect door, middle row, left drawer; the other is inside the slant lid, the long drawer to the left of the prospect door) , formerly with central finial, the mirror plate, and gilt-lacquered brasses original, the oil gilding also apparently original (as per the gilding analysis, see footnote below) 83 ¾ in. (213 cm.) high; 28 3/4 in. (73 cm.) wide; 20 ¾ in. (53 cm.) deep