Unidentified
Secretary-Book Case
1789
Physical Qualities
Mahogany, mahogany veneers, satinwood, light and dark wood inlays; cedar and tulip poplar secondary woods; reverse painted glass panels; glass; replaced exterior brasses; eglomise panels; replaced baize, Overall: 104 1/2 x 51 1/4 x 21 in. (265.4 x 130.2 x 53.3 cm.)
Credit Line
Purchase with exchange funds from Bequest of C. Edward Snyder
Object Number
1970.33
eglomise‚ glass panels in three sections- cornice, bookcase and desk base. Cornice removable, deep cove molding above flat entablature of vertically grain mahogany veneer with sides and face inlaid with elipse of lightwood string. Bookcase has paired glazed doors with elaborate decorative mullions in rectangles and arches, above the paired arches is an eglomise panel of horns, and arrows topped by pair of doves pendant from interwined garlands (this is gold leaf with black highlights on a black ground.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, by purchase, 1970; Israel Sack, Inc., New York, 1970; sold at public auction, Alex Cooper & Sons, 17 March 1970; sold at public auction, Galton Orsburn Co., Inc., 28-29 September 1942; Edyth Johns Cotten, Cylburn, Baltimore, Maryland.
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.111-112, ill. 80.
Inscribed: Upper left drawer of desk marked in pencil 'LVW' and 'N2.' The other large desk drawers are marked N2, N3, N4.
Maker
Unidentified
On View: American Wing Second Floor, Scott 08
