Auction: American Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2308Location: BostonDate / Time: February 19, 2006 11:00AM
Description:
Chippendale Red-Painted Slant-lid Desk, northern New England, late 18th century, the lid opens to a stepped interior, with valanced compartments and shaped and carved drawers above a case of four thumbmolded graduated drawers on bracket feet, replaced brasses, old surface, (repairs and imperfections),ht. 45, wd. 40, dp. 20 1/2 in.
Note: the center interior drawer is inscribed in paint "A.B. Crabtree, Hancock, Maine, September 5, 1903."
Estimate $3,000-5,000
paint wear interior, mouse damage to one compartment, cracks in lid. patch to right front foot, damage to thumbmoldings