A CHIPPENDALE FIGURED MAPLE SLANT-FRONT DESK
A CHIPPENDALE FIGURED MAPLE SLANT-FRONT DESK
A CHIPPENDALE FIGURED MAPLE SLANT-FRONT DESK
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A CHIPPENDALE FIGURED MAPLE SLANT-FRONT DESK
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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF GLENN AND PATRICIA RANDALL, CLARENDON COURT, NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND
A CHIPPENDALE FIGURED MAPLE SLANT-FRONT DESK

POSSIBLY JOHN WHEELER GEER (1753-1828), PRESTON, NEW LONDON COUNTY, CONNECTICUT, 1775-1800

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A CHIPPENDALE FIGURED MAPLE SLANT-FRONT DESK
POSSIBLY JOHN WHEELER GEER (1753-1828), PRESTON, NEW LONDON COUNTY, CONNECTICUT, 1775-1800
the back of one interior desk drawer inscribed in graphite Caleb Gates
41 ¾ in. high, 36 ¼ in. wide, 17 ¾ in. deep
Provenance
Possibly Captain Caleb Gates (1735-1816), Preston, Connecticut and Charlton, New York
James M. Hansen Antiques, Santa Barbara, California, 1974
The Gail-Oxford Collection, Sold to Benefit the Huntington Library;
Christie's, New York, 23 January 2015, lot 127
Literature
David A. Schorsch, 'Living With Antiques: The Gail Oxford Collection of American Antiques in Southern California,' The Magazine Antiques (September 1992), pp. 353, 357, 358, pls. I and XI.
Harold B. Nelson, In Ye Grandest Manner and After Ye Newest Fashion (Long Beach, 2000), np.
Exhibited
Long Beach, California, Long Beach Museum of Art, In Ye Grandest Manner and After Ye Newest Fashion, 24 September-26 November 2000.

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