Prickett Desk 2011

20 3. Lewis A. Shepard, American Art at Amherst (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1978), pp. 244–5. This is the only one of the four secretaries with straight bracket feet. They have lost some height, both carved shells are replacements and the top rear of the bonnet has been altered. Of its three distinctive Salem-type finials, with large turned ball on turned supports, only the central one appears to be original. It and the right finial of the present desk are the only original finials on any of the four related secretaries. The two side finials would have originally been urn-and-corkscrew type following common Salem practice. 4. Chest-on-chest: Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, acc. no. 34-123. 5. Bombé desks: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, acc. 41.574, see Edwin Hipkiss, Eighteenth Century American Arts. The M And M Karolik Collection (Boston, MFA, 1941), cat. no. 27, pp. 46–47; American Antiques in the Israel Sack Collection (hereafter, Sack), Vol. 3, no. 1362, p. 595, formerly on loan to the Diplomatic Receptions Rooms at the US Department of State, and with a Derby and later Rand family of Salem histories of ownership; Antiques Nov. 1944, p. 255, current location unknown; and Dietrich Foundation, Philadelphia Museum of Art. 6. Block-front desks: Sack, Vol. 2, no. 990, p. 393; Sack, Vol. 6, No. P4507, p. 1438; The Magazine Antiques, June 1949, p. 399; The Magazine Antiques, May 1977, p. 845; and The Magazine Antiques, July 1988, p. 19 , with an Ames family history, (see dealer ad of C. L. Prickett, page 24). 7. Bombé chests: Winterthur Museum, acc. 57.509, Nancy Richards and Nancy Goyne Evans, New England Furniture at Winterthur. Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1997), cat. no. 185, pp. 377–379; David B. Warren and Michael Brown, American Decorative Arts and Paintings in the Bayou Bend Collection (Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1998), cat. no. F137, p. 85; Marblehead Historical Society, Marblehead, MA, with Osgood family of Salem history, pictured in Narcissa G. Chamberlain, “History in Houses,” in The Magazine Antiques, December 1977, fig. 8, p. 1170. 8. The Magazine Antiques, October 1997, p. 398. 9. See Venable, Bybee Collection, for an excellent extended biography of him and next-generation owners. 10. This list represents those who contributed the largest sums of sterling to the 1767 British and Colonial American military campaign against the French fort at Louisburg that year, see James Duncan Phillips, Salem in the Eighteenth Century (Salem: Essex Institute, 1969), p. 210. 11. Heckscher, American Furniture.