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Black-painted pine Queen Anne slant-front desk, comprised of 2 parts- a slant-front desk box with flat top, double arch molding, pull-out supports; the inside is fitted with 5 compartments- 2 drawers and sliding secret compartment and base with channeled molding on molded base and bracket feet; the drawers are fitted with bat-wing brass handles; butterfly hinges with lid.
desks-on-frames
desks
brass (alloy)
dovetail joints
staining
ebony (color)
pine (wood)
pine (wood)
Queen Anne
Pine
Brass
Ebonized
Dovetail
Queen Anne
DESK, SLANT-FRONT
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
40 x 26 x 14 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1338
New Hampshire (United States)
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