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| sw00824: A Figured Maple Desk on Frame, Rhode Island, c.1750 Desks on frame are the rarest of the American slant top desks, according to the preeminent dealer Israel Sack, who illustrates just such a desk. The cabriole leg on ours is very straight, indicative of the Rhode Island form. Also, the dovetails are the typical strong Rhode Island type. The interior is quite austere, and typical of this provincial form. This piece is in superb condition, having a beautiful light figured maple appearance. |
| sw01399: A Queen Anne Mahogany Kneehole Desk, England, c.1760 This mahogany kneehole desk is like many of those that were produced in its era. Generally, these are reasonably priced, although many have major elements that have been replaced over the years, e.g. bracket feet and especially the tops. This desk has its unquestionable period front bracket feet and top. It is pure, with the exception of replaced period brasses. The top is crossbanded, as is the door below. |
| sw00266: Chippendale Serpentine Mahogany Slant-top Desk, Boston, c.1790. This interesting desk is composed of wonderful wood throughout. It retains its first surface, which does not always bring out the mahogany’s inherent qualities. While the mahogany is of the same tree, the cabinetmaker selected the areas where the fiddle curl was prominent for best display, see the top board and feet and top drawer of desk. |
| sw01337: A Chippendale Cherry Slant-top desk w/ Stop-fluting, New London County, Connecticut, c.1780 This is a remarkable desk, in old surface, whose cherry has turned toward the brown family, which is the result of many years of oxidization. The brasses are original. This desk has the remarkable feature of stop-fluting at the ends flanking the drawers, which is rarely seen. A chest which is illustrated in New London County Furniture: 1640-1840, Lyman Allen Museum exhibit #91, shows an identical treatment. |
| sw01279: A Carved Mahogany Chippendale Kneehole Desk, New York, c.1890, labeled "Sypher & Co." Sypher and Company was like the Hagen Brothers at the turn of the century in New York, producing the finest cabinetwork in New York, and perhaps anywhere else in America. Ernest Hagen actually bought Phyfe's tools, etc. and was a follower in his tradition. This desk retains a portion of its original label, though we were unable to decipher the maker until we found a matching complete label, shown below. |
| sw00567: Mahogany Chippendale Slant-top Desk, New York, Ernest Hagen, 1899 This desk is Hagen at his best, who was a successor of Phyfe having purchased his tools and designs and worked at the very end of the 19th century. This desk is composed of beautiful figured mahogany and retains all of its original brasses. The feet are fabulously carved and will stand up to any early example of the form… |
| sw00522: Mahogany Chippendale Centennial Desk, c.1880 This desk is designed to be placed against a wall and is composed of fine mahogany with the finest shell and claw & ball carving that one expects to see on the finest period piece of Philadelphia furniture. The cabinetmaker was a master and the wood is fine mahogany with hand-dovetailed construction and clearly benchmade. |
| sw01446: A George III Satinwood Writing Desk with Floral Painting, England, c.1800 Writing desks of this George III form and of the period are quite rare. It is in superb condition, and interestingly has its period blue paper linings typical of this period. The floral decoration is handled very delicately and is finished on all sides, enabling this piece to be used in many ways other than against a wall. The writing surface has a good leather inset which is edged by floral painted satinwood. |
| sw00190: Restoration Slant-top desk with Gothic Scroll Embellishment, New England, c.1840 While this desk was made in the early to mid 19th century, the construction techniques used throughout reveal the earlier construction techniques used in forms of this eighteenth century style, i.e. the dovetailing on the top, and the solid unpanneled sides. |
| sw00027: Mahogany Drop-front Desk, Cambridge, MA, c.1840 This desk is composed of a solid single board top and crotch grain mahogany panels in the base w/ a cross-banded pull-out butler's desk lid revealing a tiger maple accented interior. All is supported on four stylized ball feet. This desk retains it original brass pulls and has a desk top composed of solid mahogany. |
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