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Chippendale Maple Desk

Catalog#:	Autumn 2001
Category:	Furniture - American
SubType:	Desk
Origin:	America-USA
Era:	{Other}
Height:	42 3/4 inches; Writing height, 30 1/2 inches inches
Width:	35 1/2 inches inches
Depth:	17 inches inches



Chippendale maple desk in desirable small size and color. The unusual fishtail scrolling of the bracket base relates to other examples found on the Maine side of the Piscatqua River. See Albert Sack, Fine Points of Furniture: Early American (New York), vol. 1, pl. 129, for a nearly identical example.

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