
Antique Chippendale New England Tiger Maple & Cherry Slant Lid Desk Circa 1780
With our highest compliments Bay Colony Antiques takes the utmost pleasure in offering this wonderful antique slant lid desk. We are absolutely delighted to be able to showcase this marvelous desk for the consideration of collectors as well as antique enthusiasts throughout the country. Anyone familiar with antique or high quality furniture should immediately recognize this desk to be one of the rarest and most superior examples currently being offered through any sales platform where antiques are found. This antique desk is a product of a master cabinetmaker working somewhere in New England during the later part of the 18th century. We would broaden the time frame that this desk may have been produced during to the years between 1770 - 1790 with all indications favoring the earlier part of that period. The desk in all likelihood was constructed in New Hampshire or Vermont somewhere within the bounds of the Connecticut River Valley where both native New England cherry wood and old gro