Unusual Early 19th c. Chippendale Kneehole Form Shaped Desk, in Honduran mahogany, with triple-bowed front and inward slanted sides (possibly to conform to a ship's stern architecture), eleven cockbeaded edge drawers with round brass drop bail pulls and brass lock escutcheons, including a central drawer above a shaped kneehole front opening, flanked by two banks of five drawers, pine secondary wood, set on a shaped bracket base, 28 1/4" high, 39 1/4" x 18 1/4". Old repairs to front kneehole molding, shrinkage cracks to one side. Provenance: From a Newport, RI estate.