Dumbarton Oaks - Bureau Bookcase

Bureau Bookcase

Samuel Bennett (active 1695–1741)

English, Late Baroque
ca. 1720 - 1730
271.78 cm x 104.14 cm x 60.96 cm (107 in. x 41 in. x 24 in.)
walnut and burl-walnut veneer; glazed cabinet doors with parcel gilding
HC.F.1925.136.(CF)

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Bibliography

Cescinsky, Herbert, and Ernest R. Gribble. 1922. Early English Furniture & Woodwork. London: G. Routledge and sons limited. Fig. 387.

Acquisition History

Collection of Sir George Donaldson (1845-1925), London;

Sold at auction by Puttick & Simpson, London (no. 461) and purchased by CHF Kindermann-Walker, London (Inv. No. 3869) for Mildred Barnes and Robert Woods Bliss, Washington, DC, July 9,1925;

Collection of Mildred Barnes and Robert Woods Bliss, July 9, 1925 - November 29, 1940;

Gifted to Harvard University, November 29, 1940;

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, House Collection, Washington, DC