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Fine George I Burr Walnut Bureau Bookcase
Holmes Antiques
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Fine George I Burr Walnut Bureau Bookcase

18th century
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A wonderful quality early 18th Century Bureau Bookcase of beautiful light faded colour, made in a leading London workshop of the period using the finest cuts of Burr Walnut veneer. The piece is very well drawn with clean elegant lines and fitted with a very fine lip moulding and feather banding throughout. The mirrored doors with inverted corners, the interior fitted with three Oak shelves with cross grain Walnut mouldings to the front edge. The interior of the fall front featuring classical architectural elements, having finely fluted and reeded flat pilasters flanking the central door. These are locked into place using an extremely slim sliding dovetail which is actually fitted into the drawer divisions. The exceptionally clean drawer linings all made using seasoned Oak have not suffered from the usual shrinkage. The piece is fitted with working keys for the bookcase, fall and interior door. The handles and feet are period replacements.

Provenance:

Remarkably this piece bears the label of Benjamin Branfill, Esq. Hacton Hill, Upminster, Essex to the underneath of one of the book shelves and also on the underneath of the base.

William Braund a Portugal Merchant and a director of the East India Company was a bachelor and after he died in March 1774 under the terms of his will Hactons the grand 18th Century house passed to his nephew and protégé Benjamin Branfill.

The Branfill family were landowners and owned Upminster Hall and the surrounding estate for 200 years.

Much has been written about this prominent family by local historians, amazingly this process began in 1881 by Wilson who worked with members of the Branfill family to document the history.

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Holmes Antiques has dated this Burr Walnut Bureau Bookcase to the 18th Century.

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Holmes Antiques was established in 1932

We are a family business with a shop on Haworth Main Street in West Yorkshire.

We specialise in early English furniture

With the emphasis on quality, originality, colour and surface.

David Holmes has developed a reputation in the antique trade as one of the country's leading experts on early English Oak, Walnut and Mahogany furniture.

Christian Holmes is the 4th generation of the family to deal in Antique furniture

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A wonderful quality early 18th Century Bureau Bookcase of beautiful light faded colour, made in a leading London workshop of the period using the finest cuts of Burr Walnut veneer.
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The piece is very well drawn with clean elegant lines and fitted with a very fine lip moulding and feather banding throughout.
Holmes Antiques

The mirrored doors with inverted corners, the interior fitted with three Oak shelves with cross grain Walnut mouldings to the front edge. The interior of the fall front featuring classical architectural elements, having finely fluted and reeded flat pilasters flanking the central door. These are locked into place using an extremely slim sliding dovetail which is actually fitted into the drawer divisions. The exceptionally clean drawer linings all made using seasoned Oak have not suffered from the usual shrinkage. The piece is fitted with working keys for the bookcase, fall and interior door. The handles and feet are period replacements.

fig 1. A George I burr walnut bureau bookcase with double mirrored upper doors over a slant-front slope and chest of drawers with brass handles.
fig 1. Fine George I Burr Walnut Bureau Bookcase

Provenance:

Remarkably this piece bears the label of Benjamin Branfill, Esq. Hacton Hill, Upminster, Essex to the underneath of one of the book shelves and also on the underneath of the base.

William Braund a Portugal Merchant and a director of the East India Company was a bachelor and after he died in March 1774 under the terms of his will Hactons the grand 18th Century house passed to his nephew and protégé Benjamin Branfill.

fig 2. A George I burr walnut bureau bookcase with double mirrored upper doors over a slant-front slope and chest of drawers with brass handles.
fig 2. Fine George I Burr Walnut Bureau Bookcase

The Branfill family were landowners and owned Upminster Hall and the surrounding estate for 200 years.

Much has been written about this prominent family by local historians, amazingly this process began in 1881 by Wilson who worked with members of the Branfill family to document the history.

Date of Manufacture

Holmes Antiques has dated this Burr Walnut Bureau Bookcase to the 18th Century.

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A George I burr walnut bureau bookcase is a dual-section piece of case furniture originating from the early 18th century in Britain. It combines a lower chest of drawers, a middle slant-front writing slope revealing an internal desk arrangement, and an upper cabinet fitted with shelves and mirrored or panelled doors.

Pieces from this period were typically constructed with a softwood or oak carcass veneered with figure-matched burr walnut, often featuring crossbanding and feather-banding detail. Dovetail joinery, hand-carved bracket feet, pulled candle slides, and cast brass backplate handles with steel locks were standard features.

Authentic early Georgian examples display hand-sawn dovetails, deal or oak drawer linings, and natural variations in the veneer grain. Original features often include shallow drawer depths, candle slides beneath the upper cabinet doors, and period-correct brass escutcheons showing light surface oxidisation.

A Georgian bureau bookcase functions well as a focal statement piece in a study, drawing room, or hallway. The upper section provides enclosed storage or display space, while the fall-front bureau offers a functional work surface for writing or compact laptop usage.

Burr walnut veneers should be kept away from direct sunlight and heat sources to prevent drying and fading. Regular dusting with a soft dry cloth and an occasional application of beeswax polish will protect the finish, while brass handles should be left unpolished to preserve original patina.
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