Desk and bookcase Walnut Virginia 1800-1820-PZ-”Fine Piece” Birds/Ornithology Prints including the states of Arkansas

including the states of Arkansas

Sauthier left North Carolina with Tryon

purchasing art

blank landmass looms out of the right frame of the map labeled Terre de la Compagnie

Desk and bookcase Walnut Virginia 1800-1820-PZ-”Fine Piece” Birds/Ornithology Prints including the states of ArkansasDesk and bookcase Date: 1800 1820. Walnut; resinous pine secondary wood, tulip poplar in some drawer bottoms, maple front stiles of the desk. Provenance: Mark Smith (died 2021), a resident of Lynchburg, who may have acquired it in the region. The desk and bookcase was one of the most impressive furniture forms a cabinetmaker could create. Its relative simplicitylacking carving or veneers or inlays is balanced in part by walnut (a locally grown wood)