1950.167: Secretary desk in two parts
Furniture
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1950.167
- People
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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
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- 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
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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
- Permissions
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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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