A George II joined oak knee-hole bureau cabinet, circa 1740


Having a cyma-recta moulded cornice above a pair of astragal-glazed cupboard doors, enclosing adjustable shelves, the bureau having a cleated fall, and a fitted interior with a small arched cupboard door flanked by a book-slide and stepped pigeon-holes and small drawers, and centred by a well with sliding cover and further 'secret' drawers, a square loper drawer over a bank of three graduated cockbeaded drawers flanking an arch-headed knee-hole, with a recessed shelved cupboard enclosed by an arched boarded door, on bracket feet, 97cm wide x 52cm deep x 184cm high, (38in wide x 20in deep x 72in high)