A George III Secrétaire Bookcase

The swan neck, pierced broken pediment with floral carved scrolls and central fluted pilaster over a Greek Key frieze and carved acorn brackets.
A pair of astragal glazed doors oer a pull out secrétaire drawer revealing a satinwood inlaid fitted interior with central marquetry door flanked by inlaid pilasters, concealing several secret drawers.
The cabinet base with a pair of doors opening onto a shelved interior.
Raised on bracket feet.
English circa 1760

H252 W118 D56 cm
H99.2 W46.4 D22 inches

With similarities to the furniture of Thomas Chippendale including the delicate ebony and boxwood chevron borders seen on a bookcase at Dumfries House; the fluted pilaster at the centre of the pediment shown on a clothes press for Harewood House.