With its tall glazed upper section carved with anthemion and waterleaf mullions over a veneered, panelled, and carved lower section, this desk-and-bookcase exemplifies the design and ornament favored by Baltimore craftsmen during the second quarter of the nineteenth century. A writing table-and-bookcase with simiarly carved mullions and carved ionic column supports, attributed to Jenkins, was Sold in these Rooms, October 23, 1993 (illustrated in Weidman and Goldsborough, Classical Maryland (Baltimore, 1993), p.136, fig.166. For more on the Anthony H. and Michael Jenkins see Weidman, Furniture in Maryland: 1740-1940 (Baltimore, 1984), pp.75,99,293.