American Federal Gentleman's Desk and Bookcase

Federal dark and light alternating figured mahogany gentleman's desk and bookcase with gilt eagle signed by Ebenezer Eustis of Salem, Massachusetts.

• Scalloped crest topped with turned urns with banded molding.
• Three divided glass display sections with shelves and four doors secured by small locks.
• Two large bottom drawers with locks, two small drawers with oval brass hardware and two bottom hinged locking cupboards.
• Six tapered legs.
• Secondary wood: White pine.

Originally owned by John Wheelock, President of Dartmouth College and son of its founder, Eleazar Wheelock.

The Art Institute of Chicago, July 17 - September 13, 1971, "American Art of the Colonies and Early Republic" and illustrated in the accompanying catalog, pages 48-49, entry 59.