$71,100
Chippendale Carved Mahogany Block-front Slant-lid Desk, Boston, c. 1760-80, the lid with concave-carved panel and flanking convex blocked panels opens to an interior of central valanced drawer and concave drawer flanked by document drawers with baluster-turned facades, and three valanced compartments above a blocked drawer and three concave blocked drawers, the topmost with carved shell, above a concave and convex-carved case on conformingly shaped bracket feet, original brasses, old refinish, (minor imperfections), ht. 43 3/4, wd. 40, dp. 22 3/4 in. Provenance: Purchased by Mrs. Ernest L. Rueter from Israel Sack in 1919. patched shrinkage cracks to sides, sunbleaching to lid, lacks interior prospect door, cracking and nails added to right side bracket; patch to drawer separator between middle drawers, crack with the grain to third drawer.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2009-06-07
