1965.532: Chippendale Secretary Desk
Furniture
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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
- Permissions
-
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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.
Verification Level
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