A GEORGE I WALNUT BUREAU-ON-STAND

This elegant bureau is part of a group of small scale bureaux that include a virtually identical example in P. Macquoid and R. Edwards. eds. Dictionary of English Furniture, 1954, vol. I, p. 130, fig. 16. Others from the same workshop include one illustrated in R.W. Symonds, English Furniture from Charles II to George II, 1929, p. 139, fig. 85, another in R.W. Symonds, 'Dressing Bureaux of the time of George I and George II', Antique Collector, May-June 1950, pp. 106, 111; H. Cescinsky, English Furniture from Gothic to Sheraton, 1937, p. 184 and H. Cescinsky, The Old-World House, Vol. I, 1924, p. 89.