A GEORGE III SATINWOOD AND BURR-YEW CYLINDER BUREAU

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A GEORGE III SATINWOOD AND BURR-YEW CYLINDER BUREAU
Crossbanded overall in kingwood and inlaid with boxwood and ebonised lines, the rectangular top with a later three-quarter pierced-brass gallery above a sliding cylinder enclosing a fitted interior with four mahogany-lined small drawers and three pigeon-holes above three simulated small drawers and a hinged ratcheted dark red leather-lined writing-surface, above a mahogany-lined frieze drawer and a concave-fronted tambour door, on square tapering panelled legs, brass caps and castors, lacking removeable inkwells
24¼ in. (61.5 cm.) wide; 39 1/8 in. (99.5 cm.) high; 18 in. (45.5 cm.) deep

拍品专文

Thomas Sheraton published a related 'cylinder desk' pattern in his The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing-Book, London, 1803, (No. 20, pl. 1). Its hollowed-fronted and ribboned-veneer relates to a satinwood bonheur-du-jour sold anonymously in these Rooms, 18 November 1982, lot 87, while its contrasting veneers relate to that of a 'Lady's Secretary', based on a design of 1794 also in Thomas Sheraton's The Cabinet-Maker and Upholster's Drawing Book, (pl. 64) and bearing the label of George Simson, cabinet maker of St. Paul's Church Yard (C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture, 1700-1840, Leeds, 1996, p. 422, fig. 840).

A related mahogany and satinwood cylinder bureau, with a pleated-silk concave-fronted cupboard was sold anonymously in these Rooms, 21 September 1978, lot 87 and another similar cylinder bureau, with a tambour shutter, was sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 11 April 1991, lot 80.