1920s Vintage Colonial Revival Chippendale Style Maple Desk and Book Case

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Made in response to the Colonial Revival, an aesthetic movement that began around the time of the American Centennial (1876) … Read more Made in response to the Colonial Revival, an aesthetic movement that began around the time of the American Centennial (1876) and continued well into the 20th Century; in it colonial designs were appreciated and emulated.

American, unattributed maker, mid/late 20th Century With a broken swan's neck pediment with scrolled terminals over arched cupboard doors with shaped mullions, over a hinged writing lid opening to a divided amphitheater interior, over three long drawers, all on a shaped ogee bracket base.

This belonged to my grandmother who had in in her home in Astoria, Queens, New York. See less