A CHIPPENDALE CARVED CHERRYWOOD SLANT-FRONT DESK

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A CHIPPENDALE CARVED CHERRYWOOD SLANT-FRONT DESK
PROBABLY WOODBURY, CONNECTICUT, 1760-1780

The rectangular thumbmolded slant lid opening to a fitted interior with eight pigeonholes above eight short drawers centering a prospect door, over a case with four graduated long drawers, the bottom drawer centering a spoon-carved shell above a molded base, on straight bracket feet (lid slightly pieced, patch to interior)--42in. high, 41in. wide, 22in. deep

來源

Christie's, January 20 and 21, 1989, Lot 575

拍品專文

This desk is related to a group of furniture from Woodbury, Connecticut, characterized by a shell-carved lower drawer and distinctively sawn brackets. For further information and other attributed examples of this group, see Edward S. Cooke, Jr., Fiddlebacks and Crooked Backs, Elijah Booth and Other Joiners in Newtown and Woodbury, 1750-1800 (Waterbury, 1982).