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Description: GEORGE III STYLE MAHOGANY BREAKFRONT SECRETAIRE LIBRARY BOOKCASE, BY ERNEST WILLIAM VARLEY
CIRCA 1913
the pagoda cresting with a pierced fretwork gallery surmounted by urn finials flanked by conforming side galleries, above a dentil moulded and blind-arch cornice above two pairs of glazed doors with Gothic astragals opening to shelves, the central doors flanked by stop-fluted turned columns with gilt brass Corinthian capitals, the outer doors with blind fret chamfered angles; the lower cabinet with a gadrooned edge over a carved tassel frieze and secretaire drawer fitted with drawers and pigeon holes and tambour fronted cupboard flanked by stop-fluted pilasters with gilt brass capitals, over a pair of moulded cupboard doors flanked by stop-fluted columns and banks of five graduated drawers with blind fret carved angles, on a gadrooned base with foliate carved bracket feet; the centre backboard carved 'E. W. Varley, Whitby, 1913'
244cm wide, 263cm high, 63cm deep