Queen Anne Cherry Secretary Bookcase on Frame, Farmington, Connecticut, 1745-1770.

Queen Anne Cherry Secretary Bookcase on Frame, Farmington, Connecticut, 1745-1770. The top section surmounted by applied cornice molding over case hinged with two beveled panel doors in double-pegged joined frames, each opening onto separate shelved interior, resting in molded surround on the top of a slant-front desk, the lid opening with brass handle onto desktop fitted with prospect section open between a valanced frieze drawer and bottom drawer, flanked by document drawers with plane-molded pilaster fronts and a row of two valanced compartments over single drawer, the ends fitted with unusual deep square drawers below shelved step-back valanced opening, the molded center of desk surface installed with sliding panel over well concealed on case with false drawer front between lopers, this above three graduated, thumb-molded drawers, the desk raised on carved frame joined to four stout cabriole legs on pad feet, 86cm wide, 48cm deep, 208cm high (34 1/2in wide, 19in deep, 82in high). Footnotes: Provenance The collection of Eric van Rooy. Nathan Liverant & Son, Colchester, Connecticut, 16 July 2022. Reputedly owned by descendants of Deacon Timothy Cowles (1666-1736), a proprietor of Farmington, Connecticut, later sold at Dr. H.C. Gilbert's Auction. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing