A Fine and Rare Chippendale Carved Birchwood and Maple Blocked-End Reverse Serpentine Desk-and-Bookcase, probably New Hampshire, circa 1790

Israel Sack, Inc., New York

American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, vol 1, (Washington, D.C.: Highland House Publishers, Inc., 1969), p. 148, no. 402.

Secondary wood is white pine; two drawer bottoms of small drawers in the interior are replaced; the finial is replaced; backboards and dust boards on bonnet all painted black; ¼ inch strips of wood added to the inside edge of each door of the bookcase, probably done to alleviate shrinkage gaps; proper left front foot facings cracked
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A desk-and-bookcase from the same shop is in the collection of Dartmouth College Museum and Galleries, Hanover, New Hampshire (see Margaret J. Moody, American Decorative Arts at Dartmouth, (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Museum, 1981), no. 14, p. 14)  That desk-and-bookcase, according to family tradition belonged to Peter Hayes, who was born in Dover, NH, in 1688 and died in 1757.  It descended in the family to Chester Hayes of North Berwick, Maine, and then to Hammond Vinton Hayes, grandson of Judge William Allen Hayes, who married Dartmouth President Nathan Lord's (1792-1870) sister. Another related desk and bookcase is in the Watson Collection (see Philip D. Zimmerman, American Federal Furniture and Decorative Arts from the Watson Collection, (Columbus, GA: The Columbus Museum, 2004), no. 37, pp. 86-7). Another example is in a private collection.