Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Bernard and S. Dean Levy, Inc., New York Click the image to enlarge	Slant-front desk
	Object number RIF509
	Maker Maker, formerly attributed to John Townsend, American, 1732/33–1809 Maker Unknown
	Dimensions 41 3/4 � 39 1/8 � 20 3/4 in. (106.045 � 99.378 � 52.705 cm)
	Date 1760–90
	Current location Unknown
	Geography Made in Newport, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany (primary); cedar and chestnut (secondary)
	Marks Unknown
	Inscriptions Unknown
	Provenance Duncan A. Hazard (1874–1939), Newport, Rhode Island; consigned by his estate to Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, November 9, 1940, lot 106. Sotheby's, New York, October 24, 1993, lot 339. Curran and Curran, Wilton, Connecticut, 1994. Skinner, Inc., Boston and Bolton, Massachusetts (sale held Bolton), October 26, 1997, lot 104A. Sold to Bernard and S. Dean Levy, Inc., New York
	Associated names Duncan A. Hazard Sotheby's Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. Curran and Curran Skinner, Inc. Bernard and S. Dean Levy, Inc.
	Construction Top exterior drawer locks with an interior wooden latch.
	Bibliography "Rhode Island Furniture from the Collection of Duncan A. Hazard," Antiques 29, no. 4 (April 1936): 158, ill. Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, Early American Furniture including Important Goddard and Other Examples from the Private Collection of the Late Duncan A. Hazard, Newport, Rhode Island, sale cat. (November 9, 1940), 34, lot 106, ill. Sotheby's, New York, Fine Americana, sale cat. (October 24, 1993), lot 339, ill. Skinner, Inc., Boston and Bolton, Mass., American Furniture and Decorative Arts, sale cat. (October 26, 1997), 51, lot 140A, ill. "Curran and Curran Antiques and Appraisals advertisement," Antiques 145, no. 3 (March 1994): 348, ill. Bernard and S. Dean Levy, Inc., Gallery Catalogue (New York: Bernard and S. Dean Levy, Inc., 1974–2020), vol. 17, pg. 10, ill.