Marlborough legs, shaped skirt, frame with 1 drawer; desk box with slant lid; natural; inscribed "Libertate Quietem" in red and yellow paint under lid.
desks
pine (wood)
Chippendale
Chippendale
Desk
"LIBERTATE QUIETEM" (Painted)
Original to Beauport, Sleeper-McCann House (Gloucester, Mass.),
Libertate Quietem
Unknown
36 x 33.375 x 24.875 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Constance McCann Betts, Helena Woolworth Guest and Frasier W. McCann
1942.3099
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