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Object numberRIF684 |
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MakerMaker Unknown |
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Dimensions30 1/4 × 35 1/2 × 20 in. (76.835 × 90.17 × 50.8 cm) |
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Date176075 |
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Current locationUnknown |
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GeographyProbably made in Providence, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumMahogany |
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MarksUnknown |
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InscriptionsUnknown |
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ProvenanceDr. William Bowen (17491832), Providence, Rhode Island; by descent to his daughter, Mrs. Thomas Amory (née Elizabeth Bowen, born 1776), Boston; by descent to her daughter Mrs. William Raymond Lee (née Helen Maria Amory, 18121893), Marblehead, Massachusetts; by descent to her daughter Mrs. Oswald Herbert Ernst (née Elizabeth Amory Lee, 18431939), West Point, New York; by descent to Mrs. William Morton Grinnell (née Elizabeth Lee Ernst, 18711945), New York; by descent in the Bowen family; sold Sotheby's, New York, January 26 and 28, 1984, lot 843 |
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Associated namesDr. William BowenElizabeth Bowen Helen Maria Amory Elizabeth Amory Lee Bowen family Elizabeth Lee Ernst Sotheby's |
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BibliographyMichael Moses, Master Craftsmen of Newport: The Townsends and Goddards (Tenafly, N.J.: MMI Americana Press, 1984), 332, fig. 8.19.Sotheby's, New York, Important American Furniture, Decorations, Silver, and Chinese Export Porcelain, sale cat. (January 26 and 28, 1984), lot 843, ill. Brock Jobe, "The Lisle Desk-and-Bookcase: A Rhode Island Icon," American Furniture (2001): 129. Patricia E. Kane et al., Art and Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 16501830, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2016), 313n4. |