THE COL. WILLIAM RICH WHITELEY FEDERAL MAHOGANY TAMBOUR DESK-AND-BOOKCASE 

Lot 346
21.01.2022 14:00UTC -05:00
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$ 20 000
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Lot 346 | THE COL. WILLIAM RICH WHITELEY FEDERAL MAHOGANY TAMBOUR DESK-AND-BOOKCASE 
Valeur estimée
$ 20 000 – 40 000
THE COL. WILLIAM RICH WHITELEY FEDERAL MAHOGANY TAMBOUR DESK-AND-BOOKCASE 

POSSIBLY JOHN AITKEN (1770-1814), PHILADELPHIA, CIRCA 1795 

appears to retain orginal brasses

98 3⁄4 in. high, 42 1⁄2 in. wide, 28 1⁄4 in. deep







Provenance

Col. William Rich Whiteley (1752-1815), New Castle County and Whiteleysburg, Kent County, Delaware and Caroline County, Maryland

William Stevens Whiteley (1774-1859), son

William Stevens Whiteley (1826-1915), son

Hon. James Gustavus Whiteley (1866-1947), Baltimore, circa 1937, son

Joe Kindig, Jr., York, Pennsylvania, 1947

May and Howard Joynt, Alexandria, Virginia





Literature

Edgar G. Miller, American Antique Furniture, vol. 1 (Baltimore, 1937), pp. 448, 451, no. 825. 

Joe Kindig, Jr., advertisement, The Magazine Antiques (October 1947), inside front cover. 

J. Michael Flanigan, American Furniture from the Kaufman Collection (New York, 1986), p. 216 (referenced).  

The Decorative Arts Photographic Collection, Winterthur Library. 





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