Unknown artist
Annapolis or Baltimore, Maryland
Cylinder Desk, 1800/1810
Mahogany, mahogany and satinwood veneers, and tulip wood
112.3 x 107.2 x 52.3 cm (44 1/4 x 42 1/4 x 20 5/8 in.)
Signed on the proper right interior small proper left drawer, on right drawer side in script:"Jas Haillon"
Gift of the Antiquarian Society through Joyce Martin Brown, Mrs. Harold T. Martin, Mrs. Edgar J. Uihlein, Melinda Martin Vance, 1981.291
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
Art Institute of Chicago, A Decade of Decorative Arts, Nov. 12–Jan. 4, 1987, cat. 44.
Publication History
Israel Sack, Incorporated, Opportunities in American Antiques 36 (Oct. 1, 1981), pp. 42–43, no. P5103.
Helen Harris, “Israel Sack: An American Awakening,” Town and Country 136 (Feb. 1982), pp. 173–78 (ill.).
Albert Sack, The New Fine Points of Early American Furniture (Crown, 1992), p. 164 (ill.).
Judith A. Barter et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), pp. 123-24, no. 48.
Ownership History
Israel Sack, New York City, by 1981; The Art Institute of Chicago, 1981.