ANTIQUE TRIPOD TABLE, CARVED OAK CENTRE TABLE, ANTIQUE FRETWORK WALL MIRROR, DISPLAY CABINET ON STAND

A CARVED WALNUT ARMCHAIR, George II style, with a pierced splat back and cabriole legs, on claw and ball feet
A CARVED GILT-GESSO AND UPHOLSTERED ARMCHAIR, Louis XVI style, with an oval back and fluted turned legs
A CARVED OAK CENTRE TABLE, 18th [...]

ANTIQUE BIRDCAGE’ TRIPOD TABLE, MAHOGANY BERGERE  ARMCHAIRS, INLAID ROSEWOOD SIDE CABINET, CARVED GILTWOOD WALL BRACKET
AN ANTIQUE AND INLAID
BIJOUTERIE TABLE, Edwardian, the
glazed top above tapered square legs and
spade feet joined stretchers.
A SET OF FOUR MAHOGANY
DINING CHAIRS, George III style,
including a pair of armchairs, with pierced
splats and square legs.
AN ANTIQUE BIRDCAGE’ TRIPOD
TABLE, George II style, modern, with [...]

BUREAU BOOKCASES  Elongated Edwardian
The Elongated Edwardian bureaux described later were often available in a bureau bookcase form, although the bookcase above was often smaller than that of 18th century types. Leaded lights and quaint shapes were
often used.
An oak bureau bookcase with fall open to show the pigeon holes inside. There is a centre cupboard above [...]

Bureau-Bookcase
From the mid-eighteenth century, cabinets and bureau-bookcases conformed to the
Signs of authenticity
1. Wood smooth and silky to the touch.
2. Carved decoration deep and precise, rounded with age and use.
3. Vertical grain in central panels of block-fronted doors, held in cleated frames.
4. Sides in two pieces, not flush.
5. Lip moulding to edges of solid mahogany fall-fronts.
6. [...]

BUREAU BOOKCASES — oak
Eighteenth century oak examples of fashionable objects like bureau bookcases are generally thought of purely as provincial or even country pieces; indeed many are, but the range of quality varies enormously. They were made throughout a very long period of time.
Very typical of the solidly well-made pieces produced in oak; like the [...]

BUREAU BOOKCASES —  mahogany
A Chinese lacquer double-domed bureau bookcase on serpentine bracket feet. Note how the constructional features are similar to those of walnut pieces — double-D moulding (gilded) etc. Finials are missing.
1720-1740
Assume original lacquer price is $30,000 — 40,000 If lacquer 20th century $4, 000 — 8, 000
A magnificent mahogany bureau bookcase under the [...]

BUREAU BOOKCASES — walnut
A walnut bureau bookcase of finely figured walnut, with double-D mouldings and a dividing moulding around the bureau section — relic of earlier divisions (see Bureau). There is a bookrest moulding on the fall. The top has candle slides below the shaped mirrored doors, which are edged with cross-grained mouldings. 1700-1720
A burr [...]

BUREAU BOOKCASES
In the main, the same rules apply to the value of bureau bookcases as are applied to bureaux themselves and the dating of them lies in an understanding of the mouldings and types of veneered decoration. However, for the bureau bookcase there are additional features, particularly the decoration of the top moulding and the [...]