Figure no. Form

Current owner

Original owner

Date

Inscriptions

Profile of inner surface of case sides Drawer-side profiles Ends of drawer fronts Triangular base Top-edge profile of drawer sides
9 Desk Private collection Thomas Armory, Boston Before
1784
"JC"; "WA"; "WAG"

Two large areas
scooped out
Straight vertical

Project beyond drawer sides No

Single bead
13




Chest-on-chest




Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston



Family of Elias Hasket Derby, Salem


1782




"John Cogswell In midle Street, Boston 1782"; "John Cogswell" 4 times on inner surface on backboards Two large areas
scooped out



Straight vertical




Project beyond drawer sides



No




Double bead



17



Two-part desk



Private collection










"JC"; cartoon of daisy



Carved



Curved to conform to case sides


Only one of four projects beyond drawer sides No



Single bead


20

Desk-and-bookcase
Winterthur
Museum
— Jackson?

1786

"1786 AD Jackson[?]"

Straight vertical

Straight vertical

Project beyond drawer sides
No

Single bead
24


Desk-and-bookcase

Winterthur
Museum

Joseph Barrell, Boston and Charlestown


"Bottom" in chalk on bottom board

Carved


Curved to conform to case sides

Flush with drawer sides

Yes


Double bead

25

Desk-and-bookcase Winterthur
Museum
Edward Brinley, Boston/Roxbury

"Bottom" in chalk on bottom board Straight vertical

Straight vertical

Project beyond drawer sides Yes

Double bead
33

Chest of drawers US Department
of State
Ebenezer Storer I or II, Boston

"Bottom" in chalk on bottom board Angled facets

Angled

Project beyond drawer sides Yes

Double bead
36


Chest of drawers

Dietrich
American
Foundation
Poss. Joseph Sprague or Wm. Stearns, Salem





Angled facets


Angled


Project beyond drawer sides

Yes


Double bead

40

Chest of drawers Private collection



"Bottom" in chalk on bottom board Carved

Curved to conform to case sides Flush with drawer sides Yes

Double bead
41

Chest of drawers Art Institute
of Chicago



"Bottom" in chalk on bottom board Carved

Curved to conform to case sides Project beyond drawer sides Yes

Double bead
43

Chest of drawers Private collection



None Carved

Curved to conform to case sides Flush with drawer sides Yes

Double bead
-

Chest of drawers Private collection



"Bottom" in chalk on bottom board Carved

Curved to conform to case sides Flush with drawer sides No

Double bead