Provenance:

Joseph Lees Eastwick (1890-1982) and Suzanne Wister Eastwick (1906-1990);

Acquired in Malmesbury, Cotswolds, England, circa 1962, for their home, Mullins Mill House, St. Peter, Barbados;

Thence by descent in the Wister Family to the present owner.

Note:

Mullins Mill, in St. Peter, is a 17th-century property with multiple structures including a mill and store house, originally built as a sugar factory. The Eastwicks furnished the Mill House, built circa 1831, with a nice blend of antiques, including this desk and bookcase, which was shipped from England. This lot is accompanied by a black and white tearsheet photograph of the desk and bookcase, as well as a magazine article featuring the home and illustrating the desk and bookcase in situ in the "Tower Drawing Room", in The Bajan and South Caribbean (March 1967), pgs. 7-9.

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