August 2024 Premier Fine Art & Antiques Auction
August 27th, 2024
Below is just a small portion of the massive selection of high quality art & antiques to be featured in our upcoming August 27th, 2024 auction! This auction will span multiple genres of collectibles, including Fine Paintings & Art, Jewelry & Silver, Orientalia, Rare Glass & Lamps, Early & Victorian Furniture, Decoys, Carvings, Coin-Op, & MORE!
FINE 18th CENTURY CHIPPENDALE MAHOGANY BLOCK FRONT SECRETARY DESK
05-1120
Circa 1770, probably Providence, Rhode Island. The secretary desk in three parts. The removable cyma-scrolled pediment having carved rosettes, urn and flame finials, and dentilated molding. The upper secretary case having scrolled doors with fluted pilasters flanking panels of highly figured ribbon mahogany, above candle slides. The interior fully fitted with valenced letter slots over, and flanking a bank of central adjustable shelves. The lower desk case having a slant lid over four boldly blocked and graduated drawers within a cock beaded case, and complex conforming base molding standing on conforming blocked Chippendale scrolled feet. The fallboard opening to reveal a highly developed fitted interior, centered by a block and shell carved prospect door flanked by valenced letter slots over a double bank of drawers.
SIZE: 96″ h x 42 3/4″ w at widest molding.
PROVENANCE: Originally from a Maine Estate.
