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Federal Inlaid and Veneered Secretarial Desk |
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| Catalog#: |
August/September 2006 |
| Category: |
Furniture - American |
| SubType: |
Desk |
| Origin: |
America-USA |
| Era: |
18th Century |
| Height: |
99-1/4 inches inches |
| Width: |
45-1/2 inches inches |
| Depth: |
22-1/2 inches inches |
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Federal Inlaid Mahogany and Satinwood Veneered Secretarial Desk
A fine example having a removable broken arch top above an upper case with two lattice glazed doors with oval mirror panels, resting on a base with an upper drawer with oval inlays on a satinwood reserve opening to a fitted interior of small drawers, pigeon holes and a central prospect door, above two doors with round inlays on similar reserve, all resting on French feet.
Baltimore, Maryland, circa 1795.
Height 99-1/4" (8'3-1/4"), width 45-1/2", depth 22-1/2".
Provenance: Israel Sack, New York; Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, Michigan.
Literature: Pictured in Antiques from the Israel Sack Collection, Vol. 1, page 234, plate 589.
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