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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1950.167
People
John Dane, American (1749-1829)
Samuel Dane, American (1745 - 1777)
Title
Secretary desk in two parts
Classification
Furniture
Work Type
desk
Date
c. 1755-1774
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, Massachusetts
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/311568

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Mahogany and pine with brass
Dimensions
228.9 x 111.8 x 64.8 cm (90 1/8 x 44 x 25 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: top of lower piece: John Dane
  • label: inside desk: plaque: "THIS DESK WAS MADE BY SAMUEL DANE 1745-1777/ FOR HIS BROTHER NATHAN DANE 1752-1835/...."

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
John Dane to brother Nathan Dane.
Nathan Dane to his sister Mary (Molly) Dane Ellingwood.
To her daughter Fanny Ellingwood Larcom.
To her son Edwin Hale Abbot.
To his son Edwin Hale Abbott Jr.
Gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1950.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Edwin H. Abbot, Jr.
Accession Year
1950
Object Number
1950.167
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
In two parts, the upper section with three flame finials above two panel doors opening to a fitted interior, the lower section with a slant lid opening to a fitted interior above four graduated long drawers on ball and claw feet (the upper section reduced, breaks to finials, slant lid possible replaced).

Publication History

  • Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, Peter G. Huenink, Earl A. Powell III, Harry Z. Rand, and Nanette C. Sexton, American Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1972), cat. 167, ill.

Exhibition History

  • American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972

Verification Level

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