english-chippendale-secretary-bookcase
Lot 762
English Chippendale Secretary Bookcase
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Late 18th century, mahogany and mahogany veneers with white pine and oak secondary woods, three-part form with removable cornice having a veneered frieze over a bookcase with astragal mullions to the glazed doors and a louvered shelved interior. The base features a molded edge above a fall front enclosing a divided butler's desk over a pair of cabinet doors flanked on each side by three short stacked drawers, flush base.

90 x 52 x 23 in.

Oval panels outlined with inlay to fall front and cabinet doors.

Desk interior lacking two drawers; side panels of base with shrinkage cracks.

$1,000 - 3,000