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Desk and bookcase
1750–75
Object Place: possibly Newport, Rhode Island, New England
Medium/Technique
Mahogany, white pine
Dimensions
Block: 242.9 x 107.6 x 55.9 cm (95 5/8 x 42 3/8 x 22 in.)
Credit Line
The M. and M. Karolik Collection of Eighteenth-Century American Arts
Accession Number39.156
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CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsFurniture – Case furniture and boxes
Catalogue Raisonné
Eighteenth-century American Arts No. 20
DescriptionScroll pediment with spread-winged carved eagle. Carved brackets and claw and ball feet, pendant drop on molded rail.
ProvenanceAn undated document of ca. 1936 signed by Edith Smith Pickham, "The Cedars," Tiverton, Rhode Island, states that "the mahogany block front secretary with eagle top and claw and ball feet which I sold recently, originally came down in my family from Colonel John Cooke, Middletown, Rhode Island." Pickham sold the desk to the dealer Hyman Kaufman of South Sudbury, Massachusetts; purchased for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of Eighteenth-Century American Arts (Accession Date January 12, 1939)