BALTIMORE OR POSSIBLY THE SHOP OF JOHN SHAW (1745-1829), ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND, CIRCA 1800

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A FEDERAL INLAID MAHOGANY WRITING DESK
BALTIMORE OR POSSIBLY THE SHOP OF JOHN SHAW (1745-1829), ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND, CIRCA 1800
50 ¾ in. high, 26 in. wide, 26 in. deep

Provenance

Ginsburg and Levy, Inc., New York, 1940

Literature

Ginsburg and Levy, Inc., advertisement, The Magazine Antiques (May 1940), p. 223.

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Lot Essay

Consisting of sprigs and oak leaves issuing from a pot on a wall bracket, the inlaid reserves above each leg are particularly distinctive and the presence of identical ornament on two tables, one labeled by and the other attributed to John Shaw (1745-1829), raises the possibility that this desk was also made in the cabinetmaker's Annapolis shop. See William Voss Elder III and Lu Bartlett, John Shaw, Cabinetmaker of Annapolis (Baltimore, 1983), pp. 155-158, cats. 56, 57.

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