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From: "Cinnamon Hill advertisement," Antiques, 136 (September 1989): 364
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Slant-front desk

Object number

RIF524

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

42 × 42 in. (106.68 × 106.68 cm) Height, writing: 30 in. (76.2 cm)

Date

1760–90

Current location

Unknown

Geography

Made in Newport, Rhode Island
(view a map of Rhode Island)

Medium

Walnut

Marks

Unknown

Inscriptions

Unknown

Provenance

Israel Sack, Inc., New York. Dr. Daniel Bruce Moffett (1890–1976) and Mrs. Daniel Bruce Moffett, Washington, D. C., by 1953. Weschler's, Washington, D. C., June 8–10 1984. Cinnamon Hill, Franklin, Tennessee, 1984 and 1989

Associated names

Dr. Daniel Bruce Moffett
Weschler's Auctioneers and Appraisers
Mrs. Daniel Bruce Moffett
Cinnamon Hill
Israel Sack, Inc.

Bibliography

"Weschler's Estate Auction advertisement," Antiques 125, no. 5 (May 1984): 986, ill.
Helen Comstock, "Prints and Antiques," Antiques 63, no. 4 (April 1953): 354.
"Cinnamon Hill Antiques advertisement," Antiques 136 (September 1989): 364, ill.
"Cinnamon Hill advertisement," Antiques 126, no. 6 (December 1984): 1362, ill.
"Weschler's advertisement," Historic Preservation 36, no. 3 (June 1984): back cover, ill.