MAHOGANY POLE SCREEN, GILTWOOD SETTEE Louis XVI style, WALNUT DAVENPORT, WALNUT AND EBONISED MUSIC CABINET
A PAIR OF WALNUT
ARMCHAIRS,   Piedmonts, 18th Century
style, the rails and arms with bead and reel
molding, on fluted tapering square legs.
A MAHOGANY POLE SCREEN, George III, with an oval needlepoint panel, receded baluster stem and on down swept legs, glass cracked, 39cm. [...]

OAK HANGING CORNER CUPBOARD, WALNUT WALL MIRROR, BUTTON UPHOLSTERED ARMCHAIR, MAHOGANY ROCKING CHAIR
AN OAK HANGING CORNER CUPBOARD, mid 18th Century, with a raised gallery top above a fielded paneled door, 49cm. wide.
A MAHOGANY BUREAU BOOKCASE, George III style, early 20th Century, with astragal doors and serpentine drawers, on cabriole legs, faults to glazing, 208cm. high [...]

REEDED FRAME DRESSING TABLE MIRROR, MAHOGANY SERVING TABLE, BEECHWOOD AND UPHOLSTERED FAUTEUIL, SATINWOOD CROSSBANDED EXTENDING DINING TABLE
TWO RUSH SEAT LADDER BACK CHAIRS
A WALNUT ARTIST’S EASEL, 19th Century, with a rear hinged support and ratchet adjusted picture rest, 91cm. wide.; Reputedly to have been in the possession of Sir George Clauses R.A. and purchased from his [...]

Antique Art Deco and Modernist BUREAU BOOKCASES
Bureau bookcases appear to have languished a bit in the mid-Victorian period. There was a continuation of production of the sub-classical types of the 1840s but on the whole writing was at desks and books were in
cabinets. Perhaps the pieces of Burges and Shaw exhibited in 1862 revived a [...]

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 [...]

BOOKCASES, REVOLVING
About 1790 to 1915
A smallish open-shelved bookcase revolving on a central pillar. A patent for a bookcase with individually rotating shelves was granted to Benjamin Crosby in 1808, but many pre-date this. Especially popular during Regency and, in a different form, during the Edwardian period.
STYLE AND APPEARANCE
Usually circular. Could have been two and six [...]

ENGLISH DWARF BOOKCASES
About1800 onwards
The burgeoning popularity of reading at the turn of the 19thC, particularly among women, created demand for small, readily accessible bookshelves of only table height, where books of relatively small value could be stored openly in rooms used in an informal way. Especially popular during the Regency period when they were made [...]

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. [...]

BUREAUX — cylinder and tambour
The use of a sliding cylinder or tambour instead of a fall seems to have become most prevalent in the late eighteenth century and to have continued in use throughout the nineteenth, when the roll-top desk became widely used in offices.
This form of writing desk or bureau merits a section on [...]

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 [...]