Chippendale Secretary Desk

Artists

Description

In two parts, the upper section with swan's neck pediment with three flame and urn finials above two arched panel doors opening to a fitted interior, the lower section with thumbmolded slant lid opening to a fitted interior with a fan-carved prospect door flanked by two stacks of three drawers, also fan-carved, above a block-front desk with four graduated long drawers over a conforming apron centering a drop pendant on ogee bracket feet, proper left back foot pieced.

Dimensions

228.6 x 101.6 x 54.6 cm (90 x 40 x 21 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Mrs. Roger I. Lee, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965