Lot Essay
For a related desk, see lot 232.
BOSTON, 1700-1725
Details
A WILLIAM AND MARY WALNUT VENEERED SLANT-FRONT DESK
Boston, 1700-1725
The rectangular veneered top with herringbone surround above a slant lid similarly embellished centering an inlaid eight-pointed star opening to a compartmented interior centered by five valanced pigeonholes above three drawers, the central concave and flanked by drawers surmounted by shelves over a sliding lid opening to an interior well above a conforming case fitted with two veneered short drawers with herringbone surrounds over two similarly embellished long drawers, all separated by double-beaded molding above a conforming molded base, on turned compressed-ball and pad feet, appears to retain original brasses, the sides, top and lid modern with original veneers reversed
39.5/8in. high, 35.3/8in. wide, 19in. deep
Boston, 1700-1725
The rectangular veneered top with herringbone surround above a slant lid similarly embellished centering an inlaid eight-pointed star opening to a compartmented interior centered by five valanced pigeonholes above three drawers, the central concave and flanked by drawers surmounted by shelves over a sliding lid opening to an interior well above a conforming case fitted with two veneered short drawers with herringbone surrounds over two similarly embellished long drawers, all separated by double-beaded molding above a conforming molded base, on turned compressed-ball and pad feet, appears to retain original brasses, the sides, top and lid modern with original veneers reversed
39.5/8in. high, 35.3/8in. wide, 19in. deep
Provenance
Israel Sack, Inc., New York City
The Bybee Collection, Houston
The Bybee Collection, Houston
Literature
Albert Sack, Fine Points of Furniture: Early American (New York, 1950), p. 139.
Jonathan L. Fairbanks, "American Antiques in the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Bybee, Part II," Antiques (December 1967), p. 834.
Jonathan L. Fairbanks and Elizabeth Bidwell Bates, American Furniture: 1620 to the Present (New York, 1981) p. 61.
John T. Kirk, American Furniture and the British Tradition to 1830 (New York, 1982), fig. 601, p. 204.
Charles L. Venable, American Furniture in the Bybee Collection, (Austin, Texas, 1989), cat. 79, pp. 172-173.
Jonathan L. Fairbanks, "American Antiques in the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Bybee, Part II," Antiques (December 1967), p. 834.
Jonathan L. Fairbanks and Elizabeth Bidwell Bates, American Furniture: 1620 to the Present (New York, 1981) p. 61.
John T. Kirk, American Furniture and the British Tradition to 1830 (New York, 1982), fig. 601, p. 204.
Charles L. Venable, American Furniture in the Bybee Collection, (Austin, Texas, 1989), cat. 79, pp. 172-173.
Exhibited
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, "An American Sampler, 1700-1875: The Charles Lewis Bybee Memorial Collections," 23 October 1981 - 7 February 1982.