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  • 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...
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    Antique Early 18th Century English George I Bookcases

    Materials

    Walnut

  • 18th Century English George II Walnut Secretary Bookcase
    By Giles Grendey
    Located in Chelmsford, Essex
    For sale is a fine quality 18th century English George II walnut secretary bookcase in the manner of Giles Grendey. The shaped mirrored pane...
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    Antique Mid-18th Century English George II Bookcases

    Materials

    Walnut

  • 19th Century George III Mahogany Bureau Bookcase
    Located in Chelmsford, Essex
    For sale is a good quality George III mahogany bureau bookcase. Having two glazed doors in the top, both opening to reveal adjustable shelves. Below this is the bureau section, with ...
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    Antique Early 19th Century English George III Bookcases

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    Mahogany

  • 18th Century Lacquer and Gilt Chinoiserie Bureau Bookcase
    Located in Chelmsford, Essex
    For sale is a good quality 18th century chinoiserie Secretary bookcase. The top of the bookcase has an ornately shaped and carved pediment, above a single arched mirror door, opening...
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    Antique Late 18th Century English George III Bookcases

    Materials

    Oak

  • 18th Century Irish George II Mahogany Secretaire Cabinet manner of Giles Grendy
    Located in Chelmsford, Essex
    For sale is a fine quality 18th century George II Irish mahogany secretaire cabinet in the manner of Giles Grendy. The shaped mirror panels doors opening ...
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    Antique Mid-18th Century Irish George II Bookcases

    Materials

    Mahogany

  • 18th Century English George III Mahogany Kneehole Desk
    Located in Chelmsford, Essex
    For sale is a George III mahogany kneehole desk, having a total of 11 drawers and a cupboard to the centre, the desk stands on small ...
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    Antique Late 18th Century English George III Desks

    Materials

    Mahogany

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  • 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...
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    Antique Early 18th Century British George I Bookcases

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    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...
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    Antique Early 18th Century British George I Bookcases

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    Mirror, Walnut, Burl

  • 18th Century Scandanvian Rococo Giltwood and Walnut Bureau Bookcase
    Located in Brighton, Sussex
    A very impressive 18th Century Rococo carved giltwood and Walnut bureau bookcase, having wonderful scrolling foliate and plume decoration to the cornice, a single mirror door with gi...
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    Antique Late 18th Century Scandinavian Rococo Desks

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  • 18th Century Dutch Marquetry Bureau Bookcase
    Located in Brighton, Sussex
    A very imposing good quality 18th century Dutch Marquetry bureau bookcase, having wonderful flowers, birds, classical scull and urn decoration. ...
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    Antique 18th Century Dutch Desks

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    Walnut

  • 18th Century George II Yew Wood Secretary Bookcase
    Located in Essex, MA
    Period early 18th century George II Yew Secretary bookcase. Original Mirrors and interior. Integrity throughout. Beautiful compartmented interior. Original carved and gilded framing around mirrors. Retains original extremely high quality Georgian hardware...
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    Antique Early 18th Century English George II Secretaires

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  • Henredon Georgian Walnut Drop Front Secretary Desk With Bookcase Hutch
    By Henredon
    Located in South Bend, IN
    A beautiful Georgian or Queen Anne style bureau with drop front secretary desk and bookcase hutch top By Henredon USA, Circa 1980s Gorgeous figured walnut, with original bra...
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