Λ AN EARLY GEORGE III MAHOGANY BUREAU BOOKCASE

Λ AN EARLY GEORGE III MAHOGANY BUREAU BOOKCASE

ATTRIBUTED TO THOMAS BRADSHAW, C.1760-70

the pierced and leaf carved swan neck pediment above a conforming cavetto frieze and a pair of Gothic lancet astragal glazed doors with cluster columns, enclosing two adjustable shelves, the hinged fall with a later baize lined writing surface, revealing an arrangement of pigeonholes and drawers with ivory knob handles, and a central cupboard flanked by cluster column secret pilasters, above two short and three long drawers, on gadrooned ogee bracket feet

263cm high, 118cm wide, 62.5cm deep

Catalogue Note

Thomas Bradshaw was an upholder and cabinet-maker based at 10 St. Paul's Church Yard and he subscribed to Chippendale's Director (1754) and was declared bankrupt in 1772. A bureau bookcase with a similar cornice to the present lot is illustrated in Christopher Gilbert, 'Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840', p.119. pl.150. See also Christopher Claxton Stevens & S. Whittington, '18th century English Furniture, The Norman Adams Collection, pp.192 & 197, for comparable examples, one with a similar wreathed moulding, both with ogee bracket feet.