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Cylinder Desk

A work made of mahogany, mahogany and satinwood veneers, and tulipwood.
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  • A work made of mahogany, mahogany and satinwood veneers, and tulipwood.

Date:

1785–93

Artist:

John Bankston
American, 1754–1814
Richard Lawson
English, 1749–1803
Baltimore

About this artwork

Status

On View, Gallery 169

Department

Arts of the Americas

Artist

John Bankston

Title

Cylinder Desk

Place

Baltimore (Object made in)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

c. 1785–1793

Medium

Mahogany, mahogany and satinwood veneers, and tulipwood

Inscriptions

Signed on the proper right interior small proper left drawer, on right drawer side in script:"Jas Haillon"

Dimensions

112.3 × 107.2 × 52.3 cm (44 1/4 × 42 1/4 × 20 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Purchased with funds provided by the Antiquarian Society through Joyce Martin Brown, Mrs. Harold T. Martin, Mrs. Edgar J. Uihlein, and Melinda Martin Vance

Reference Number

1981.291

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