Clara Louise Kellogg Desk

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Posted by mackydog21
16 years ago
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Description This is an umbrella desk that has a protrait of clara louise and her parents. I know that there are pieces of her furniture in the Charles Wright Musuem in South Carolina but havent been able to find out more than she had furniture made for her and all have her protrait engrave on it.
Category American Furniture
Medium oak
Distinguishing marks protrait of clara louise and mother and father
Condition Good
Size and dimensions of this item 48 x 27 x 48
Date Period 1880
History made for the fisrt american opera singer clara louise
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Taylormaid 🌱 Newbie 15 years ago

We purchased a piece of furniture with the Clara Louise Kellogg medallion on it from Craigslist a few years ago.  (The seller had advertized it as a Martha Washington desk.)  It was in very rough shape and had been stored in a barn or outbuilding for some time.  Because it is an item which has a knee-hole and doors on either side but oddly had a floor in it and wheels, we are assuming it might be Miss Kellogg's travel vanity.  We currently have it displayed in our home.  We had to put a top on it but made it so it didn't  harm or modify the original part of the piece.  The locks on the doors still work and the wood is beautiful.  I don't know how to upload a picture but I'm interesting in finding out if there are more pieces like this and what their story is.  The only ones I have seen have been listed in a museum but I did a see a couple of the medallions on ebay. 

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