CYLINDER BUREAU IN THE MANNER OF BENEDIKT HOLL Viennese. Circa 1820. Cylinder Bureau Measurements: Height: 39 3/4″ (101 cm); Width: 30 1/2″ (77.5 cm); Depth: 19″ (48 cm).

BUREAU MAZARIN Probably Roman. Circa 1735. Bureau Mazarin Detail of Bureau Mazarin Measurements: Height: 46″ (117 cm); Width: 62″ (157 cm); Depth: 29″ (74 cm). Height to the writing top: 33″ (84 cm).

A very similar table can be seen in William Odom's book, A History of Italian Furniture. The table Odom illustrates is of walnut with elongated drawers, however the identical Greek key frieze below the drawers, coupled with the closely comparable fluted tapering legs and fluted corner-posts strongly suggest that both pieces share the same maker. The table illustrated by Odom is described as being either 'Liguria or Emilia, Late XVIII Century'

Of ebonised wood with gilt bronze mounts. The rectangular top inset with a leather panel and encased with a gilt bronze moulded edge, the panelled frieze fitted with three drawers to the front, each edged with gilt bronze moulding and centred by a cartouche key-escutcheon and foliate drop handle, the frieze fully dummied to the reverse. The whole raised on four circular, tapering and fluted legs, each leg headed by an acanthine capital, the flutes with bronze festoon mounts, each leg terminating in acanthine decoration and a toupie foot.

Of birch and bog oak inlaid throughout in a geometric design. Comprising two sections, the upper section with a rectangular top above a frieze fitted with two cavetto fronted drawers centred by a short drawer, the frieze above the cylinder opening to reveal a restored fully fitted interior centred by a hinged door flanked by two high drawers flanked to either side by three compartments, two short drawers and a long drawer, the cylinder above an inlaid extending serpentine fronted writing desk, the conforming lower section fitted with two long drawers flanked by faux fluted corners, the sides inlaid, the whole raised on four restored tapering inlaid legs.

English. Circa 1730. This magnificent and beautifully detailed bureau cabinet belongs to a group of closely related cabinets either labeled by or attributed to the celebrated London cabinetmaker Giles Grendey (1693-1780). Of rare viridian color, with its profuse colored opaque glazed highlights and exceptionally bold architectural form, it ranks among the finest works in lacquer by any maker of the first half of the 18th century. The designs and execution of Grendey's lacquerwork are very distinctive, often employing parades and close groupings of figures, animals and foliage, and using subtle layers of modeling in his raised work to achieve depth of perspective. The scene on the fall-front depicting a dignitary on horseback followed by attendants is a theme used by Grendey on a number of occasions. Furthermore the present bureau cabinet is almost identical in design to the walnut bureau cabinet of bombé form formerly in the Hochschild Collection and strongly associated with Grendey.