Desk and Bookcase
1760-90 (Metropolitan Museum's own catalogue bracket for the piece). Brock Jobe's 2001 study captions this specific example about 1760-1770, a narrower range not reconciled with the Museum's bracket in any source consulted. - Mahogany, with chestnut, white pine, yellow pine, yellow poplar (tulip poplar) and cedar as secondary woods; brass hardware