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Dressing Bureau
A rare combination piece,c.1735, with pivoting dressing glass set in a mahogany frame decorated with egg and dart mouldings.
Dressing Bureau - click to zoom image
Dressing Bureau
 
The fall front opens to reveal a traditional bureau arrangement of pigeon holes and compartments hidden in columns.

It stands on a base enriched with Buddhistic lions’ masks at the knees and cleverly shaped cabriole legs which terminate, at the front, in hairy lions’ paw feet.

 

This object is located in Anne's Bedroom
It is categorised as Furniture
This page was last updated on 23 March 2007


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