Bureaux on Stands
BUREAUX ON STANDS
Late seventeenth century oak bureau showing the evolution from a simple desk to more complex internal drawers and pigeon holes under the fall-front. The bureau is on a stand with a single drawer in it and on
baluster-turned legs with square stretchers, one of which is missing (left-hand side). Note here the ‘desk’ section overlaps the stand. 1675-1700
Walnut bureau on stand with octagonal tapering legs ending in bun feet and linked by an X-stretcher. The fall is decoratively veneered with three sheets of walnut and cross-banded outside a ‘feather’ or herring-bone inlay. The ‘desk’ still overhangs the ’stand’ part but the drawers have now increased to three. There is a book or bible rest moulding on the fall.
A really superb arabesque marquetry bureau on a later stand with square chamfered legs and an X-stretcher. Note how the inside is ’stepped’ to take advantage of the space under the fall.
A walnut bureau on stand with turned legs with inverted cup forms and bun feet with an X-stretcher. Note that now the bureau no longer hangs over the supports and that more locked space has been achieved by
blanking off the top drawer and making access via the desk, i.e. a well.
A walnut Queen Anne bureau on cabriole legs with trefoil feet. Note how the stand has become wider than the desk. A type much reproduced.
1710-1730 If stand right the value is 6,000 — 8,000. If stand wrong and bureau is the sawn off top of a conventional bureau.
A mahogany bureau on cabriole-legged stand. The cabrioles are good — nice scroll behind the knee, good balance down to the pad feet.
Chippendale at work — how he liked carved cabrioles! A mahogany Chippendale-design bureau with a blind fret around the top of the stand (beneath the drawers, which are cock-beaded) and cabrioles with scroll and
leaf carving ending in ball-and-claw feet.
bracelet leather and steel 316l
solitaire 18kt white gold diamond
925 silver ring with amethyst
stupendo orobianco pearl and diamonds
bell 925 e zirconia earring
pink gold ring with zirconia
Tags: bun feet, Bureaux, cabriole legs, Chippendale, drawers, mahogany, Queen Anne, seventeenth century, stretchers