A GEORGE II FIGURED-WALNUT BUREAU-CABINET reputedly by John Bath of Exeter, the moulded cavetto cornice above a pair of doors with later shaped rectangular plates within a moulded rosette-enriched frame and enclosing a fitted interior with a central door, flanked by pigeon-holes and drawers, the later candle-slides above a cross and feather-banded base section with hinged slope enclosing a fitted interior with eight variously-sized drawers, pigeon-holes and three secret drawers with fluted pilaster-strips, flanking the reversible central section, above four graduated long drawers, on a moulded plinth and shaped bracket feet, restorations, the backboard to the top replaced, restorations

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

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By strong family tradition this bureau cabinet was made in 1741 for the Woolcott family of Exeter by a cabinet-maker named John Bath
Thence by descent to Anthony George Woolcott (d.1986) when inherited by the present owner

拍品专文

Althought they are here a replacement, the same model of exotic mount appears on a George III serpentine commode from Serlby Hall, Nottingham, which was sold from the collection of the late Samuel Messer, Esq., in these Rooms, 5 December 1991, lot 105. The mounts derive from illustrations in Gaetano Brunetti's Sixty Different Sorts of Ornament of 1736