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South Carolina, circa 1800, the upper case with removable cornice and diamond shape over two glazed doors with adjustable shelved interior, the tambour section with rosewood banding opening to a fitted interior with central patera inlaid prospect door lifting from a conforming base with two dovetailed drawers and tapered legs, pullout writing slide, white cedar and white pine secondary, 92-1/2 x 45 x 25 in.
Provenance: An Important Southern Institution
Note: This piece retains a partial MESDA label and is recorded in MESDA file S-8040. According to that file, it was found about 30 miles from Columbia, South Carolina and sold to the Charleston Museum in 1955. An additional, very closely-related Charleston tambour desk and bookcase has also been documented by MESDA, see research file S-27071. The MESDA documented example shares with this desk and bookcase secondary woods of white pine and red cedar, a nearly identical bookcase fenestration, the same drawer configuration on the tambour interior, and other details.
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An Important Southern Institution