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British & Continental | March 11, 2025

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Featuring a collection of 17 rare and important tapestries from the Brooklyn Museum, including a 15th-century millefleur and animal example, as well as a series with William Randolph Hearst provenance. Fine art highlights include four works by Bruno Zupan, Spring Landscape by Raymond Thibesart, and a lifetime collection of early René Lalique glass. The collection also features fine examples of period British furniture, early English silver from a Charlottesville, VA estate (including epergnes, tankards, goblets, and loving cups), and a fine selection of carpets, including Serapi and Oushak.
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Lot 125

Fine George I Inlaid Burr Walnut Desk and Bookcase

Estimate: $5,000 - $7,000
Starting Bid
$2,600

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British, early 18th century, the upper section with very finely fitted and mirrored interior, beveled smoky mirror plates, the lower case with fall board opening to a fitted interior with interior till, probably original batwing brasses and escutcheons, finely crafted throughout, dovetailed drawers with oak linings, original bracket feet, 82-1/4 x 40-1/2 x 23-1/2 in.

Provenance: Property from a Private Chicago Estate

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Property from a Private Chicago Estate

a fine desk in good condition, some areas of sun fading including at desk interior (interior prospect door with replaced hinges, some drawers fit tightly, felt writing surface replaced), some typical buckling and cracks to veneers with the usual scattered repairs and distress including shrinkage separations at fall board, upper doors were reversed at some point (the mirrors were on the outside previously)