Attributed to Bankson and Lawson
Cylinder Desk
1784
Physical Qualities
Mahogany; light and dark wood inlays; tulip poplar and yellow pine secondary woods; metal ornaments and hardware, 44 1/2 x 42 3/4 x 21 in. (113 x 108.6 x 53.3 cm.)
Credit Line
Friends of the American Wing Fund
Object Number
1986.12
Cylinder-front desk with large eagle inlay and shaped skirt with veneer
The Baltimore Museum of Art, by purchase, 1986; GKS Bush, Inc., Antiques, Washington, D.C., 1985; Estate of Robert Atkinson, Chestertown, Maryland; Joseph Kindig, Jr., Antiques, York, Pennsylvania, 1947.
Elder III, William Voss and Jayne E. Stokes. American Furniture 1680-1880: From the Collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art. Baltimore: Museum of Art, 1987, p.103-104, ill. 76.
Hornberger, Patrick and Joe Kindig, III. Masterpieces of the American Longrifle: The Joe Kindig, Jr. Collection. Eastwind Publishing: Trappe, MD, 2015, p. 9, figure 1.19
Designer and Manufacturer
Attributed to Bankson and Lawson
1785-1792
Meet Attributed to Bankson and Lawson
On View: American Wing Second Floor, Scott 06
