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1740-1770
GUSN-4354
Queen Anne desk on frame sits on four cabriole legs with pad feet. Rectangular case with scalloped skirt enclosing two rests and three graduating drawers with canal molding have replaced brasses, central escutcheon with two corresponding bails at sides. Above, slant top opens forward revealing interior of five drawers surmounted by six pigeonholes with a central shell-carved door.
desks-on-frames
desks
carving (processes)
maple (wood)
pine (wood)
shell (animal material)
maple (wood)
pine (wood)
Queen Anne
shell (animal material)
Children's furnishing
Pine
Maple
Carved
Queen Anne
Shell
Desk, Drop-front
Original to Hamilton House (South Berwick, Me.),
Unknown
36.875 x 27.875 x 13.875 (HxWxD) (inches)
Bequest of Elizabeth R. Vaughan
1949.216
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