A CHIPPENDALE MAHOGANY SLANT FRONT DESK, 18TH CENTURY, with a flat rectangular top above a slant front hinged door with a later brass bat wing escutcheon above a concave half shell carving, opening to a fitted interior centering an arched short drawer with shell detail and brass button pull flanked by open letter pockets with double arched valances and shaped dividers, over a larger central drawer within paired short drawers and each enclosing brass button pulls, above exterior side lopers with matching pulls and three graduated drawers mounted with identical brass escutcheons centered by brass bale handles on batwing backplates, raised on a molded plinth and shaped bracket feet. Height: 42" Width: 40" Depth: 20"