Antique English Bureau Bookcase
English Bureau Bookcase
A Queen Anne walnut bureau bookcase of the slender ’single width’ type with simple bookcase above. There is a chamfered edge period glass mirror in the door. The bureau section exhibits all the characteristics of ordinary bureaux of the period - herring-bone inlays and cross banding, drawer edge mouldings and stepped interior. The door on the bookcase is beautifully veneered in cross-banded effect.
Price Range: E2,000-Z2,500 Value points: See section notes
A burr walnut Queen Anne period bureau-bookcase of fine quality, with a broken pediment showing a fine bold cross grained moulding. The chamfered door mirrors are edged by a thin ‘D’ moulding and beneath the doors the two tiny brass knobs indicate candle slides. The interior shows the pillar flanked door which has a star pattern inlay in boxwood and ebony. The exterior drawers are edged with cock beading and have a herring-bone inlay.
Price Range: $2, 500 - $5, 000 Value points: See section notes
A bureau-bookcase of the Hepplewhite period in which the change to the latticed glazed doors instead of mirrors which took place after the mid-18th century is demonstrated. A broken arched pediment with pierced fret completes the design above a dentillated moulding. The bureau section reflects the change towards commodes in the chest of drawers field, in that panelled veneered doors enclose the drawers below the fall. The feet are still of bracket type but a shaped apron between them reflects the taste of the last part
of the 18th century.
Price Range: $1,500-$2,000
Value points: This is an extremelyfine example as far as choice of veneers and craftsmanship are concerned, hence the high price scale.
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A fine quality mahogany mid-18th century bureau-bookcase with broken pediment above and candle slides beneath the bookcase doors. The bureau section is made of well chosen figured mahogany and the piece appears to feature the unusual characteristics of having the two small upper drawers on either side beneath the fall to act as bearers for the fall when open. The shaping of the mirrored doors to echo the cornice, with its dentil frieze beneath the top moulding, adds considerable quality to the design.
Price Range: $500-$700
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A country bureau-bookcase of c. 1750 in yew wood with double domed doors and having a narrow drawer on either side under the fall to act as bearers. The interior has pigeon holes and drawers with an unusual centre door let into a well. The sides are left in oak. Evidently a countryman’s version of the town style and possibly made a few years after the latter became fashionable; one could surmise that an attempt at imitating the double-domed walnut pieces of the Queen Anne period is possible.
Price Range: $150-$175
Value points Yew wood
A mahogany bureau-bookcase of mid-18th century date. The bureau section follows the characteristics of ordinary bureaux. with cock-beaded drawers, bracket feet and a straight interior under the fall, with no well. The bookcase section has mirrored doors and a dentil section incorporated in the top edge moulding. This is a simple and undecorated example of fairly broad dimens ions.
Price Range: $230-$320
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A George I period walnut bureau-bookcase of heavier proportions. The top of the bookcase shows the deep concave section below the moulding, veneered in crossgrained wood, which was a feature of later pieces of the walnut period. There are candle slides beneath the bookcase doors. The drawers have a lip edge moulding to overlap the flat veneered carcase edges.
Price Range: $1,000-$1,500 Value points: See section notes
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