A GEORGE II BURR WALNUT SECRETAIRE CHEST ON CHEST C.1730 AND LATER with cross and feather banding and canted and fluted angles, the upper section with a moulded cornice above three short and three long graduated drawers, the lower section with a secretaire drawer fitted with pigeonholes, drawers and secret drawers, above two short and two long graduated drawers, with carved flowerhead and swag handles and gilt brass escutcheons on shaped bracket feet 180cm high, 107.3cm, 58cm deep Provenance The family collection formed at Well Head House, Halifax, Yorkshire. Catalogue Note A chest on chest with slight differences to its brassware and feet, but of otherwise identical form and size, was sold at Christie's, London, 8th July 1999, lot 64. Related examples, with or without secretaire drawers, are illustrated in S. Whittington and C. Claxton Stevens, 18th Century Furniture: The Norman Adams Collection , London, 1989, p.368 and R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, London, 1954, vol. 2, pp.42-43, and vol. 1, p.140. A secretaire chest on chest with the trade label of Daniel Wild, at the Golden Ball, St. Paul's Churchyard, London, is illustrated on p.469 of C. Gilbert (ed.), Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, London, 1996, p.469. For a closely related example, see Sotheby's, London, Classic English Furniture, Norman Adams Legacy, 21st April 2009, lot 45.