George III Style Eight Door Breakfront Cabinet Bookcase c.1890

This is a stylish mahogany George III style 8 door breakfront astragal glazed cabinet bookcase. The stylish carved cornice with lunette pattern, ogee moulding and simple frieze, the 8 glazed astragal doors each with a ribbed brass beading separating the doors and elongated elegant astragals. Inside each section there are 4 mahogany faced adjustable shelves, the base with a well carved dragooned fore-edge and four simple pilasters with carved tapering harebells, all the panels in matched flame mahogany with shelving inside. Beneath the bottom drawers there are three shaped friezes all on the front on squat splayed French bracket feet. The bookcase has excellent colour and patination and breaks down into several pieces.