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Lot 538
Massachusetts Chippendale Slant Front Desk
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Circa 1800, walnut with white pine, dovetailed case, lipped lid with breadboard ends opens to reveal valanced cubbies over serpentine drawers centered with a shell carved prospect; four graduated lipped drawers on a shaped bracket foot base. Old surface patina.

39.75 x 37.5 x 17.5 in.

Estate of Anne K. Ross, Ipswich, MA

Included with this lot is a drawing of the Andrew Burley House in Ipswich, Massachusetts by Carl Nordstrom (MA, 1876-1965). The chest purportedly was one of the furnishings in this home.

Estate condition with some marks and shrinkage cracks; replaced pulls.

$2,000 - 4,000