A Chippendale style mahogany bureau bookcase, the upper section with a bold swan-neck pediment with dentil moulding and finial carved as a vase of flowers, the pair of astragal glazed doors fitted with pierced brass escutcheons, the base with palmette and scrolling leaf carved fall, enclosing an interior with similarly carved door and an arrangement of drawers and pigeon holes, over four long graduated cockbeaded drawers, fitted with brass swan-neck handles and pierced brass escutcheons, above a plinth boldly carved with gadrooning, raised on ball and claw feet, old paper label verso: Frank Bowels Antiques/345-351 Fourth Avenue/New York. 242cm by 95cm by 53cm