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From: "Living with Antiques: The Nashville Home of Dr. and Mrs. Benjamin H. Caldwell, Jr.," Antiques 100 (September 1971): 439
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Slant-front desk

Object number

RIF552

Maker

Maker Unknown

Date

1760–90

Current location

Unknown

Geography

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

Medium

Mahogany

Marks

Unknown

Inscriptions

Unknown

Style

Chippendale

Provenance

Dr. Benjamin H. Caldwell, Jr. (born 1937) and Mrs. Benjamin H. Caldwell, Jr. (née Gertrude Sharp Caldwell, born 1935), Nashville, Tennessee, by 1971

Associated names

Dr. Benjamin H. Caldwell, Jr.
Mrs. Benjamin H. Caldwell Jr.

Bibliography

Orrin Wickersham June, "Living with Antiques: The Nashville Home of Dr. and Mrs. Benjamin H. Caldwell, Jr.," Antiques 100, no. 3 (September 1971): 439, ill.