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Slant-top Desk

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Collection Type

  • Furniture

Date

1770-1800

GUSN

GUSN-41540

Description

Slant-top desk. Cherry. Four drawers, elaborate bracket feet, two- tiered interior with shell carved on upper drawers.

Details

Descriptive Terms

slant-front desks
desks
mahogany (wood)
Norway spruce (wood)
Desk, Slant-top

Inscription

On desk drawers in pencil ""John Stickney"" and various numbers and left and right designations.

Additional Identification Number

B126

Maker

Stickney, John

Location of Origin

Newbury, Massachusetts, New England; Newburyport, Massachusetts, New England

Dimensions

40 x 41 1/8 x 20 1/4 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Evelyn G. Sears

Accession Number

1954.162

Places

Massachusetts (United States)
Possibly Newbury (Essex county, Massachusetts)
Possibly Newburyport (Essex county, Massachusetts)

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