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Chippendale Secretary Desk
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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.
Department of American Paintings Sculpture & Decorative Arts
Mrs. Roger I. Lee gift; to Fogg Art Museum 1965
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Gift of Mrs. Roger I. Lee in memory of Roger Irving Lee
Title: Chippendale Secretary Desk
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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