Cylinder Desk and Bookcase

1800–10

Artist unknown (American, 19th century)
Boston

Status: On View, Gallery 168
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Artist unknown
Title: Cylinder Desk and Bookcase
Place: Boston (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. 1800–1810
Medium: Mahogany and white pine, with mahogany, birch, and maple veneers
Inscriptions: Inscriptions: lower case, on underside of proper left short drawer bottom in script: "R"; on underside of proper right short drawer bottom in script--both in pencil:"L"; on interior of drawer bottom on long drawer in chalk:"FOR BOOKS"
Dimensions: 196.8 × 91.2 × 55.9 cm (78 1/2 × 35 7/8 × 22 in.)
Credit Line: Jessie Spalding Landon Fund
Reference Number: 1957.453
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“Annual Report 1957–1958”, The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly, 52, 3 (October, 1958), 77 (ill.).
Barbara Wriston, “American Furniture in the Collection”, The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly, v. 57, 1963, 26–33 (ill.).
Myeric R. Rogers, “American Decorative Arts at the Art Institute of Chicago,” Antiques 74, 1 (July 1958), 54 (ill.).
Vernon C. Stoneman, John and Thomas Seymour (Boston, Special Publications, 1959), 132–33 (ill.).
Barbara Wriston, “American Furniture in the Collection,” The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly 57, 1 (Spring 1963), 26–33 (ill.).
The Antiquarian Society of The Art Institute of Chicago: The First One Hundred Years (Art Institute of Chicago, 1977), no. 145.
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), 120–22, no. 47.

Art Institute of Chicago, The Antiquarian Society: The First One Hundred Years, Apr. 23–June 19, 1977, cat. 145 (ill.) as Cylinder Fall Desk and Bookcase.

Goodwin and Reed families, Newburyport, MA; with Ginsburg and Levy, Inc., New York, N.Y., by 1957; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1957.

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