Desk

Provenance

General Ebenezer Huntington, Norwich, CT, to 1834; by descent to an unidentified granddaughter, c. 1885; George Smith Palmer, New London, CT, 1885; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1918; sold by them to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1948.

Desk

Felix Huntington

1775–90

Accession Number

62581

Medium

Mahogany, zebrawood, and white pine

Dimensions

109.8 × 112.5 × 56 cm (43 1/4 × 44 1/4 × 22 in.)

Classification

desk

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of the Antiquarian Society through the Jessie Spalding Landon Fund