A George I burr walnut, walnut and featherbanded bureau cabinet


The shaped moulded top surmounted by knop finials above a small oval bevelled mirror, over a pair of shaped panelled doors inset with bevelled mirrors, enclosing five drawers and three adjustable shelves, with candle slides below, the fall enclosing six pigeon holes and five drawers, above lopers, two short drawers and two long drawers, on later bracket feet, 104cm wide x 62cm deep x 230cm high, (40 1/2in wide x 24in deep x 90 1/2in high)
|A virtually identical George I bureau cabinet to the offered lot sold Christie's, London, 2 May 2002, Important English Furniture, lot 265. Another with a taller upper section attributed to Peter Miller, which previously belonged to Sir Thomas Beevor, Bt., sold Christie's, London, 14 June 2001, lot 150.A bureau cabinet with a similar configuration of drawers and handles to the lower section of the present model appears illustrated in a trade advertisement for M. Turpin, The Connoisseur, June 1969. Also, related drawings for comparable upper and lowers sections feature among designs produced during the 1720s by Russian cabinet makers sent to London by Peter the Great for the purpose of honing their craft, F. Martynov, A Russian Master Cabinet Maker, Furniture History Society, 1994, p. 95, figs. 1-2. Another similar example, which is inscribed: 'Will Palleday at the Crown in Aldermanbury - Cabinet Maker', formerly at Pelham Galleries, features in C. Gilbert, The Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture, 1996, Leeds, p. 361, fig. 704.