Georgian bureau cabinet. England, 18th century. Root... Lot 32

Georgian bureau cabinet. England, 18th century. Root wood. Measurements: 224 x 97 x 53 cm. A two-part piece of furniture, with a bureau in the lower part and a cabinet in the upper part, a typology that was very popular at this time, known in the Anglo-Saxon world as "secretaire and bookcase", very representative of English cabinetmaking in the Baroque period. Dutch cabinetmaking in the late Baroque period was heavily influenced by English furniture. The lower body has a chest of drawers raised on bracket feet, a common feature of English furniture. It consists of four registers of decreasing height, with the largest at the bottom, so as to avoid overloading the structure (by placing the heaviest objects in this drawer at the base). The bureau that crowns the chest of drawers has a 45º inclined top, as usual. Inside, the bureau has a simple display of small drawers and niches in a symmetrical arrangement. The upper cabinet has two doors that end in semicircular arches, fitting into the arch of the finial and following the same forms as the William & Mary and Queen Anne mirrors. Inside, the cabinet has drawers, pidgeon holes, with sinuous frontal cut-outs and rounded arches, arranged in attractive combinations. It is topped by a truncated round arch, typical of the Georgian style.