A GEORGE I WALNUT AND FEATHERBANDED SECRETAIRE BOOKCASE CIRCA 1725The fall front drawer opening to an arrangement of pigeon holes and small drawers above a velvet inset writing surface 212cm high, 109cm wide, 58cm deep Provenance: Purchased Christies; Country House sale; Picton House, June 1993 (£16,500).For a bookcase of the period of related form but not executed in as richly figured timber and without the unusual cavetto moulded drawer and fall, see Christie's, London, Important English Furniture and Tapestries, 2nd May 2002, Lot 277 (£10,755).