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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.532
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Chippendale Secretary Desk
Classification
Furniture
Work Type
desk
Date
c. 1760-1780
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/327027

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Mahogany
Dimensions
228.6 x 101.6 x 54.6 cm (90 x 40 x 21 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Mrs. Roger I. Lee, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Roger I. Lee in memory of Roger Irving Lee
Accession Year
1965
Object Number
1965.532
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
In two parts, the upper section with swan's neck pediment with three flame and urn finials above two arched panel doors opening to a fitted interior, the lower section with thumbmolded slant lid opening to a fitted interior with a fan-carved prospect door flanked by two stacks of three drawers, also fan-carved, above a block-front desk with four graduated long drawers over a conforming apron centering a drop pendant on ogee bracket feet, proper left back foot pieced.

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