DESK, SLANT-TOP
Category
FURNITURE
Object Name
DESK, SLANT-TOP
Maker/Artist
Surbaugh, David
MESDA Craftsman ID Number
63746
Place Made
Greenbrier county, West Virginia
Date
1821
Materials
cherry __primary ||poplar __secondary
Dimensions
[Overall Ht]desk 45 3/4″ bookcase 48 3/8″ __[Overall Wdth]desk 46″ bookcase ±45 1/2″ __[Overall Depth]desk 23 5/8″ bookcase 13″
Description
Flared bracket feet, shaped skirt, three graduated drawers, battened fall board supported by quadrants; desk interior has a prospect door flanked by a single drawer over two adjacent drawers over four pigeon holes. Bookcase has a cove molded cornice, two doors with fourteen lights each and mullions in the Chinese taste.
Object Location
private collection
Photo Number
S-7666
File Location
VV-8-40/VV-34-1
History
Owner’s father, who died 1913, found it in an old slave cabin near Lewisburg, West Virginia.
Alterations-Condition
feet tipped about 1 1/2″
Sign/Marks
inscribed on the bottom of an interior drawer __”Jno R. Dunn / Roncevete / Aug 20th 1899 / Rained” ||inscribed on the back of a drawer behind the prospect door __”May the 25th 1821 / made and sold by David Salough / for $25″
Joinery
Back of vertical tongue and groove boards set into sides and top and nailed. Drawer supports grooved into back stiles which cross at all drawers. Feet of vertical shaped blocks set directly under the case.
Hardware
knobs on inner drawers and prospect door; bail and rosettes on large drawers __key entry to fall board and large drawers
Examined
Frank L. Horton –Bradford L. Rauschenberg –Mary Witten Neal __Yes __Yes __10/19/1977