Fall-front desk. Mahogany, white pine, light and darkwood inlay, brass hardware. Upper case with fall-front panel that opens to reveal two small long drawers over two small short drawers that surmount four cubbyholes on each side of a central star-inlaid prospect door. Lower case features four graduated drawers wtih oxbow facad,e round blocking, a shaped central drop at skirt and heavy claw-ball feet that terminate from ogee brackets with cyma-curved carving.
slant-front desks
desks
mahogany (wood)
inlays (decorations)
black cherry (wood)
eastern white pine (wood)
Chippendale
Desk
"235"
"EEM"
C112
Unknown
Boston, Massachusetts, New England
44 1/4 x 46 1/4 x 24 (HxWxD) (inches)
Bequest of Julia Crocker
1933.6047
Massachusetts (United States)
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
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