Property from the Collection of David H. Murdock
A George III Mahogany Pedestal Desk after a design by Thomas Chippendale, Circa 1765
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Description
the top with moulded edge and later brown leather writing surface; the serpentine facade with central frieze drawer flanked by two tiers of four graduated drawers, on a moulded plinth base; restoration and alterations
height 31 in.; width 64 1/2 in.; depth 30 1/2 in.
79 cm; 164 cm; 77.5 cm
Stair & Co., New York;
Jerome C. Neuhoff Collection, Sotheby's New York, 25 January 1986, lot 239.
Alice Winchester, 'An American Collection of English Antiques', The Connoisseur Yearbook, 1954, p.30 nos. IX, X
Alice Winchester, ed., 'England's Age of Mahogany', Living with Antiques. A Treasury of Private Homes in America, New York 1963, p.286
This desk is based on a design for a 'Library Table' that appears as plate LVI in the first and second editions of Thomas Chippendale's Gentleman and Cabinetmaker's Director (1754 and 1755), and an original drawing for the engraving is in the Metropolitan Museum, New York (20.40.2(20)).
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