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A CHIPPENDALE MAHOGANY BLOCK-FRONT AND SLANT-FRONT DESK

Lot 570
24.01.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1362436
Lot 570 | A CHIPPENDALE MAHOGANY BLOCK-FRONT AND SLANT-FRONT DESK
Estimate value
$ 15 000 – 30 000
A CHIPPENDALE MAHOGANY BLOCK-FRONT AND SLANT-FRONT DESK
ATTRIBUTED TO NATHANIEL GOULD (1734–1781), SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS, 1770-1781
the underside of one desk drawer inscribed Stephen Brown and Esther Brown / Desk bought in Salem Mass / when living in Danvers about 1811; other desk drawers inscribed with six additional references; appears to retain original hardware
42 ¾ in. high, 45 in. wide, 23 ¼ in. deep




Provenance

Mr. Stephen and Mrs. Esther Brown, Danvers, Massachusetts, circa 1811
Israel Sack Inc., New York, 1950
Stephen S. Pichetto, New York
Bernard & S. Dean Levy, Inc., New York
Jill and Mickey Baten, New York
Northeast Auctions, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 15 August 2015, lot 505



Literature

Albert Sack, The New Fine Points of Furniture: Early American (New York, 1950), p. 150 (lowermost image only).
Antiques and the Arts Weekly (September 2, 2015).
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