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Desk on Frame

Collection Type

  • Furniture

Date

1780-1810

GUSN

GUSN-3139

Description

Desk on frame. Pine with original cart blue paint. Top has fall front with six pigeon holes and open spaces below. Base has no drawer, chamfered legs with no turnings, and plain stretchers. In two sections; hinged thumb molded slant top box opening.

Details

Descriptive Terms

desks-on-frames
desks
painting (coating)
pine (wood)
pine (wood)
Pine
Painted
Desk

Associated Building

Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

40 1/2 x 33 1/4 x 21 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.1643

Places

Massachusetts (United States)

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