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Slant-front desk

Object number

RIF611

Maker

Maker Unknown
Maker, formerly attributed to Job Townsend, Sr., 1699?1765

Dimensions

42 × 36 1/2 × 21 in. (106.68 × 92.71 × 53.34 cm)

Date

1740–60

Current location

Unknown

Geography

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

Medium

Mahogany

Marks

Unknown

Inscriptions

Unknown

Style

Chippendale

Provenance

By descent in the Nichols and Deegan families. Bernard and S. Dean Levy, New York, 1981

Associated names

Bernard and S. Dean Levy, Inc.
Nichols Family
Deegan Family

Bibliography

"Bernard and S. Dean Levy, Inc., advertisement," Antiques 120, no. 4 (October 1981): 677.