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Style: George I
George I Bureau Desk Walnut Chest Drawers
Located in Potters Bar, GB
George I Walnut Bureau.
This Bureau Stands Upon Bracket Feet and Features an Arrangement of 2 Over 2 Oak Lined Drawers.
18th Century
The Drawers and the Fall Having Herringbone Inlays.
The Interior Having an Assortment of Drawers and Pigeonholes.
The Bureau Retails its Original Handles, Escutcheons and Loper Pulls.
The Bureau is of a Good Warm Antique Walnut Colour.
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18th Century Antique George I Desks
Materials
Walnut
English Country House George I Walnut Double Dome Bureau Bookcase
Located in Salisbury, GB
Very rare George I double dome walnut bureau bookcase, it is of a smaller than the regular size and so can fit in most homes.
This George I walnut bureau bookcase...
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1720s British Antique George I Desks
Materials
Walnut
Antique George I Quality Figured Walnut Herringbone Inlaid Bureau
Located in Suffolk, GB
Antique George I quality figured walnut Herringbone inlaid bureau having a quality antique George I walnut bureau with a walnut herringbone inlaid fall opening to reveal a fitted int...
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18th Century English Antique George I Desks
Materials
Walnut
George I Bureau Desk Walnut Chest Drawers
Located in Potters Bar, GB
George I walnut bureau.
This bureau stands upon bracket feet and features an arrangement of 2 over 2 oak lined drawers.
18th century
The drawers and the fall having herringbone inlays.
The interior having an assortment of drawers and pigeonholes.
The bureau retails its original handles, escutcheons and loper pulls.
The bureau is of a good warm antique walnut colour.
Category
Early 1800s Antique George I Desks
Materials
Walnut
Late 19th Century Georgian Style Burl Walnut and Leather Top Desk
Located in Charleston, SC
Gorgeous wear and patina on this burl walnut and leather top Georgian style desk from late 19th century. Early Georgian style with burl walnut and leather top raised on pad feet with...
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Late 19th Century English Antique George I Desks
Materials
Leather, Walnut
Fine Quality Antique George I Figured Walnut Bureau with Original Handles
Located in Suffolk, GB
Fine quality antique George I figured walnut bureau with original handles having a fine quality figured walnut bureau with walnut inlay stringing, 2 short and 3 long oak lined drawer...
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18th Century English Antique George I Desks
Materials
Walnut
George I Walnut Bureau Bookcase
Located in Essex, MA
Rectangular cornice over a single door with mirror, the desk section with fold down writing surface opening to a nicely fitted interior and sliding panel opening to a well, all over ...
Category
1720s English Antique George I Desks
Materials
Walnut
Antique George I Quality Figured Walnut Bureau
Located in Suffolk, GB
Antique George I quality figured walnut bureau having a quality figured walnut fall with herringbone crossbanding opening to reveal a fitted interior consisting of five walnut drawer...
Category
1720s English Antique George I Desks
Materials
Walnut
Very Fine 18th Century George I Period Burr Walnut Bureau Bookcase
Located in Petworth,West Sussex, GB
A very fine George I period walnut and feather banded bureau bookcase, circa 1720, the moulded cornice above a pair of mirror panelled doors, ope...
Category
Early 18th Century British Antique George I Desks
Materials
Mirror, Walnut, Burl
George I Walnut Kneehole Desk
Located in Essex, MA
Nicely figured walnut, rectangular quarter veneer top over top over a drawer and kneehole with door and small drawer flanked by drawers raised on bracket feet.
Category
Early 18th Century English Antique George I Desks
Materials
Other
George II Burr Walnut Kneehole Desk, c.1735
Located in London, GB
A George II Burr walnut and feather banded kneehole desk with caddy moulded top, c.1735. Of exceptional patina & colour.
Measures - 75cm H x 74cm W x 47cm D.
Category
18th Century British Antique George I Desks
Materials
Oak, Walnut
18th Century English George I Walnut Secretary Bookcase
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
For sale is a good quality George I walnut secretary bookcase, having a domed cornice above a bevelled mirror door enclosing two shelves. The...
Category
Early 18th Century English Antique George I Desks
Materials
Walnut
George I Walnut Secretaire Kneehole Desk
Located in Lymington, GB
An English early 18th century walnut secrétaire kneehole desk.
George I period (1714-1727), c 1720.
Of exceptional waxed honey color and lovely old patina, with well-matched veneers.
With a quarter-veneered top. Six short drawers below a hinged fall revealing a writing section, all surrounding a central recessed cupboard. There is a small, shaped pull-out drawer fitted in the apron.
All finely inlaid with herringbone lines. Raised on its original bracket feet. Swan-neck handles probably fitted later in the 18th century. Locks and keys are mostly original. Walnut veneered and crossbanded sides.
Nb. Having a fitted secrétaire drawer distinguishes this antique walnut kneehole desk...
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Early 18th Century English Antique George I Desks
Materials
Walnut
Early 18th Century English Walnut Veneered Stepped Interior Georgian Bureau Desk
Located in New York, NY
Exceptional condition for this English secretaire/chest/desk of George I period. The finish in figured burl walnut adds aesthetic beauty to the history of this piece acquired by Cosulich Interiors & Antiques from a collector in Yorkshire. Georgian wood...
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Early 18th Century English Antique George I Desks
Materials
Metal
Small Georgian Elm Bureau
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A delightful early 18th century George I Period Elm
bureau of diminutive proportions having well figured
fall front enclosing drawers and pigeon holes over
two short and three lo...
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Early 18th Century English Antique George I Desks
Materials
Elm
Early 18th Century George I Figured Walnut Bureau Bookcase
By Peter Miller
Located in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
A superb and exceptionally well proportioned early 18th century figured walnut ‘pagoda topped’ double dome bureau bookcase, circa 1720 England.
The upper section is surmounted with what is believed to be the original solid walnut finials and soft bevelled mirror plates, opening to a removal bank of walnut veneered and feather banded drawers, cantered by pigeonholes below two shelves. Candle slides are neatly stowed below the bookcase doors to reflect the light.
To the moulded bureau, the fall opens to reveal pigeonholes, long and short asymmetric drawers each beautifully veneered in figured walnut and feather banded, cantered by a cupboard door which neatly conceals an open compartment and drawer. Below the fall, two short and two long graduating oak lined drawers are each book-matched in superb sections of hand-cut figured walnut veneers over bun feet.
It should be noted that this exceptional desk and bookcase, is not only of the finest cuts of figured walnut veneer but exquisitely made at the pinnacle of design which had gradually evolved predominantly in London, during the late 17thand early 18thcentury.
The actual description 'desk-and-bookcase' appears to be first recorded in the accounts of the Royal cabinet-maker Gerrit Jensen (fl.1680-d.1715) who supplied several for the Royal Household from 1710 (Bowett, op. cit.), and another described as 'a walnut writing desk, the top for books and patons and glass in the doors asked' for the 5th Earl of Salisbury, Hatfield House. Another maker of this form of desk was the London cabinet-maker John Gumley (1691-1727) who advertised in Richard Steele's Lover on April 24 1714 that he 'hath taken for a Ware-house, and furnished all the upper part of the New Exchange in the Strand' continuing with an extensive list of his stock including 'Desks and Bookcases.' In 1714 he supplied one of these in walnut to James 1st Duke of Montrose for the sum of £11.
Russian cabinetwork of this period was strongly influenced by Tsar Peter I return to Russia after his studies in London. He subsequently sent twenty-four cabinetmakers who were working in Amsterdam to London to train as furniture makers. One of these cabinetmakers named Fedor Martynov made furniture for the Empress Anna Ioannovna. Martynovs drawings are almost identical to the present piece.
Literature
Mallett’s Great English Furniture, London: Bullfinch Press 1991, p.248, fig 287, by Lanto Synge,
English Furniture 1660-1714 From Charles II to Queen Anne, by Dr Adam Bowett,
Woodbridge: Antique Collector’s Club, 2002 Chapter 7 Case Furniture 1689–1714 pp.221-223 fig. 7:53
A walnut bureau bookcase of the same form and period sold from the private collection of Patricia Kluge...
Category
Early 18th Century British Antique George I Desks
Materials
Walnut
Antique George I Quality Figured Walnut Bureau
Located in Suffolk, GB
Antique George I quality figured walnut bureau having a quality figured walnut crossbanded fall opening to reveal a fitted interior consisting of six drawers, six pigeon holes and a ...
Category
1720s English Antique George I Desks
Materials
Walnut
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