Antique Oak Furniture Bureau
Antique Oak Furniture Bureau and Bureau Bookcase
An antique oak bureau of c.1740, with an unusual drawer there is a long drawer under the fall, thus ensuring that or be made, and subsequently the normal two short ones. The drawers have an ovolo lip moulding around the surfaces of the piece are in fairly straight grained oak snaking medullary rays which tend to detract from the surface of the wood. The simple bottom of this piece of antique oak furniture edge moulding and bold are typical of country construction.
An oak bureau of c.1745 in a dark Spanish or Cuban variety of the wood for furniture which was the first type introduced. The later Honduras wood was lighter in weight and colour. The high bold bracket feet and simple proportions belie the much later ring handle replacements on the drawers. The original handles would have been much more in the style of the keyhole plates; in fact the escutcheons or back plates of the handles would have been almost exactly the same. Note the vertical grained veneering of the flat carcase fronts between the drawers and the plain vertically grained veneered sides.
An oak bureau of mid-eighteenth century furniture date with the fall decorated by an inlaid star pattern in boxwood and ebony. This example is unusual in that the front edges are inset with a fluted pillar. The drawers are cock-beaded and their handles are not original, being in a later style. The original handles would have been in a shape more in keeping with the keyhole plates.
Another oak bureau of c.1780, which provides an interesting comparison with the preceding example. The four long are well graduated and have cock-beaded edges. The fall, however, is not made of
one piece but is of a type often seen in mahogany with a large centre section bounded by twig edge pieces with gran running at ninety degrees to the horizontal main section, and with mitre joints at the top corners*. The fall shows medullary rays in profusion. At the base the furniture bracket feet are flush with the faces of the main carcase and a reeled moulding has been applied round the bottom edge.
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