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930 Stony Hill Road, Yardley, (Bucks Co.), PA 19067 Telephone: (215) 493-4284 Website: www.clprickett.com E mail: info@clprickett.com Clarence, Craig, & Todd Prickett We are located just 25 minutes north of Philadelphia and 75 minutes south of NYC at the Newtown Exit, #49, of I-95. Hours: By appointment or by chance. C. L. PRICKETT Fine Authenticated American Antiques Salem, Massachusetts, circa 1770. Height 89¾" (7' 5¾"), width 42½", depth 22". Provenance: Gift from Mrs. Russell Sage to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1909. Literature: Colonial Furniture In America by Luke Vincant Lockwood, page 266, plate 288; American Furniture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, pages 275 & 276, item 188. Fine Chippendale Figured Mahogany Reverse-Serpentine Front Bonnet-Top Secretarial Desk having a broken arch top with enclosed bonnet, original pinwheel rosettes, original turned and carved spiral finials, a carved sunburst centering the scroll board, two paneled doors with scalloped inside borders and fluted pilasters, candle slides, a blocked and three fan carved interior with central bank of drawers flanked by document drawers and pigeon holes, a nicely shaped lower case with four graduated drawers, beaded drawer dividers and ogee bracket feet centered by a carved dropped pendant.