Object Description
Of a super rich colour and unparalleled quality, the George II period mahogany bureau bookcase having a moulded cornice above a pair of shaped cupboard doors inset with sparkling mercury glass bevelled mirrors and moulded gilded slips, opening to adjustable shelves, secret drawers, and pigeon holes; the base with a slanted front opening to a fitted interior over four long graduated drawers with winged putti brass drop handles, the whole raised on ogee bracket feet and surviving from the second quarter of eighteenth century Ireland.