The companion chair has a fold-down back that allows it to be rolled into the kneehole space and out of sight when the doors are closed.
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Among their pieces is a Queen Anne block and shell-carved mahogany kneehole desk, attributed to Edmund Townsend and estimated to sell for $ 800, 000 to $ 1.2 million.
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This year, he bought the two top pieces from the Meyer collection : a Rhode Island kneehole desk for $ 3.6 million and a bonnet-top Boston secretary for $ 1.4 million.
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The Art Deco period of the 1920s and'30s brought a profusion of large dressing tables in stained or highly lacquered woods, with a kneehole opening in the center and a bank of drawers to each side.
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Three further pieces at Holkham, a mahogany table-press " carv'd and gilt with wire doors " and a pair of card tables, perhaps recorded in a bill of 1757, and a kneehole writing-or dressing-table, were tentatively attributed to Goodison by Anthony Coleridge.
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For example, Heckscher said that until recently he was unable to illustrate fully how the 18th-century furniture forms that were developed in Boston _ high chests, kneehole desks, secretaries and the dressing tables called lowboys _ related to those that were later adapted and changed significantly in Newport, with carvings of shells, leafy knees and claw feet added.
