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Slant-Top Desk. Four drawers; inlaid quarter-round shells in drawer corners; drawers over pigeon holes in interior. Straight skirt terminates in bracket feet with carved corners .
desks
cherry (wood)
chestnut (wood)
inlay (process)
maple (wood)
Norway spruce (wood)
Federal
Desk, Slant-top
Possibly Noyes, Samuel S., 1785-1832 (Maker)
Possibly Maynard, Micajah, 1771-1807 (Maker)
Wayland, MA, USA
42 1/3 x 42 1/8 x 20 1/8 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Edwin Buckingham Sears
1983.67
Wesselman, Linda J. and Martha D. Hamilton. Earliest Recollections: Furnishings from the Family of Edwin B. Sears. Boston: Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, 1984.
Massachusetts (United States)
probably
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