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A FEDERAL INLAID WALNUT DESK-AND-BOOKCASE
PROBABLY WEST VIRGINIA OR TENNESSEE, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
In two sections: the upper part with swan's-neck pediment terminating in pinwheels and centering a foliate and shell-carved plaque flanked by stylized shells above a pair of arched fielded panelled cupboard doors flanked by colonettes and enclosing shelves; the lower part with slant-lid decorated with geometric inlay enclosing an elaborately fitted interior centered by a dished prospect door carved with a pinwheel and inlaid with lunettes and a bird atop a leaf amid geometric motifs flanked by foliate-inlaid document drawers and dished drawers and pairs of pigeonholes over a shaped small drawer, all over a thumbmolded drawer flanked by small pinwheel-carved drawers, above two short drawers and two long drawers, on bracket feet (hinge repairs)--93in. high, 37in. wide, 21 3/4in. deep
