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Lot 124
Sale 6427 - American Furniture, Folk & Decorative Arts: Featuring Property from Prominent New York and Philadelphia Collectors
Nov 12, 2025
10:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$4,000 -
6,000
Price Realized
$5,120
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
A Chippendale Carved Cherrywood Desk and Bookcase
Likely Salem County, New Jersey, Circa 1760-1780
the book case entablature with dentil molding above applied vine, enclosed by fluted corner columns, the desk opens to an elaborate shell-carved serpentine interior, the removable prospect section reveals hidden access panel and is inscribed in graphite, "Property of John Gosling/ afterward [property] of Boston Gosling/ afterward [property] of Hannah C. Casperson/ Feby 1881/ afterward [property of] Jonathan W. Acton/ 1901," conforming fluted corner columns, ogival feet.
Height 77 x width 39 x depth 23 5/8 inches.
This lot is located in Philadelphia.