A George II walnut secretaire chest of drawers

A George II walnut secretaire chest of drawers, circa 1740, the rectangular top with moulded edge above a shallow secretaire drawer, the three long graduated drawers below above shaped bracket feet, 82cm high, 94cm wide, 62cm deep
Provenance: Private Collection, London
For a related chest of drawers see Adam Bowett, Early Georgian Furniture, 1715-1740, Antique Collectors Club, 2009, page 108, Plate 3:26 (part of the collection at Beningborough Hall, York ). The Beningborough example demonstrates a similar shallow arrangement of the uppermost drawer(s). Whilst the Beningborough example appears to incorporate two drawers to the shallow uppermost frieze, the current example having a single drawer that is fitted, seems to be a genuinely rare feature for a chest of this period.