Chippendale
Cherry Reverse-Serpentine Secretarial Desk

Chippendale
Cherry Reverse Serpentine Secretarial Desk having a bookcase top with a
nicely shaped cornice with dentille above a cherry veneered frieze above two
paneled doors opening to adjustable shelves over three drawers over a slant
fronted lower section with fitted interior with a central prospect door flanked
by document drawers and one over two drawers over four pigeon holes, four
graduated long drawers in the exterior with blocked ends and beaded surrounds
flanked by fluted quarter columns all over ogee bracket feet.

Hartford area,
Connecticut, circa 1785.

Width 45”, depth 23”, height 87” (7’3”).
Item
4778
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