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Lot 530
Federal Slant Front Inlaid Desk
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Late 18th century, Mid-Atlantic, Eastern Seaboard area, mahogany and mahogany veneers, yellow pine and white pine secondary woods, of stately proportions, having a slant lid embellished with banded inlays and central shell paterae and cornered with acorn motif quarters the interior features a central prospect with floral urn paterae, eight short drawers and nine pigeon holes above four graduated cock-beaded drawers, raised on applied bracket foot facings.

47.5 x 47 x 21.5 in.

From a Prominent Piedmont NC Collection

Appropriate hardware; foot facings original but with hairline; later ash lopers; minor scattered wood losses; replaced felt writing surface.

$3,000 - 5,000