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IMPORTANT CHIPPENDALE BLOCK-FRONT KNEEHOLE DESK
New York Circa 1765
Primary Wood: Mahogany Secondary Wood: Tulip Poplar Height: 33 inches Width: 34 inches Depth: 21 3/4 inches Provenance: Israel Sack, Inc., New York; The Blausen Family, New York.
Reference: A nearly identical New York kneehole desk is in the American Wing of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. It is illustrated and discussed in Morrison Heckscher's, American Furniture in the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Colonial Period: Queen Anne and Chippendale Styles, entry 136, pages 213-214. In his entry on the Metropolitan Museum's example, Morrison Heckscher notes that New York examples of this form are rare, particularly in comparison to objects from
Rhode Island or Massachusetts.
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