OAK PEDESTAL DESK, MAHOGANY LINEN PRESS, CARVED OAK DINING CHAIRS, OAK CYLINDER BUREAU, WALNUT SIDE CABINET
A STAINED OAK PEDESTAL DESK, Victorian, carved with foliage and caryatid figures, 160cm. wide.
A RECTANGULAR GILTWOOD OVERMANTEL MIRROR, William IV, with molded uprights and applied at the corners with flower heads. 130cm. wide.
AN OCTAGONAL OAK AND MARQUETRY CENTRE TABLE, German, [...]

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. [...]

WALNUT AND EBONISED SIDE TABLE, LOUIS XVI STYLE STAINED WALNUT SETTEE, UPHOLSTERED CHAISE EN CONFIDENT, MAHOGANY SIDEBOARD
A WALNUT AND EBONISED SIDE TABLE, Victorian, with a pair of frieze drawers and raised on lobed and turned tapering legs, 81cm. wide.    A WALNUT CANTERBURY, Victorian, the dividers pierced and carved with scrolling foliage, on toupee feet, one [...]

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 [...]

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 — 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 — 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 [...]

BUREAUX — later 18th century
In the early part of the eighteenth century the bureau was high fashion. Gradually as the century progressed and property increased a succession of new pieces of writing furniture were evolved or adapted with the
result that the bureau as illustrated in the last section (but not the bureau bookcase) tended to [...]