Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

From: Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, Important American Furniture: Property from the Estate of the Late Cornelius C. Moore, Newport, Rhode Island, sale cat. (October 30, 1971), 19–20, lot 83 Click the image to enlarge	Slant-front desk
	Object number RIF506
	Maker Maker, possibly by Christopher Townsend, 1701–1787
	Dimensions 41 1/2 � 37 � 19 1/2 in. (105.41 � 93.98 � 49.53 cm) Writing height: 31 in. (78.74 cm)
	Date 1750–70
	Current location Unknown
	Geography Made in Newport, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Walnut (primary); chestnut (secondary)
	Marks Unknown
	Inscriptions Unknown
	Provenance Cornelius C. Moore (1885–1970), Newport, Rhode Island; consigned by his estate to Parke Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, October 30, 1971, lot 83. Robert Burkhardt, Kutztown, Pennsylvania, 1974–1975. Cherry and Watson, Barnstable, Massachusetts, 1979
	Associated names Cornelius C. Moore Robert Burkhardt Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc.
	Notes The columns on the letter drawers and the serpentine design of the drawers below the pigeon holes are like the interior of the bookcase by Christopher Townsend (RIF242).
	Bibliography "Robert Burkhardt advertisement," Antiques 105, no. 4 (April 1974): 726. Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, Important American Furniture: Property from the Estate of the Late Cornelius C. Moore, sale cat. (October 30, 1971), 19–20, lot 83, ill. "Cherry and Watson advertisement," Antiques 115, no. 2 (February 1979): 288. "Robert Burkhardt advertisement," Antiques 107, no. 4 (April 1975): 614. "Robert Burkhardt advertisement," Antiques 108, no. 5 (November 1975): 848.