Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Sotheby's, New York Click the image to enlarge	Bureau table
	Object number RIF684
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions 30 1/4 � 35 1/2 � 20 in. (76.835 � 90.17 � 50.8 cm)
	Date 1760–75
	Current location Unknown
	Geography Probably made in Providence, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany
	Marks Unknown
	Inscriptions Unknown
	Style Chippendale
	Provenance Dr. William Bowen (1749–1832), Providence, Rhode Island; by descent to his daughter, Mrs. Thomas Amory (n�e Elizabeth Bowen, born 1776), Boston; by descent to her daughter Mrs. William Raymond Lee (n�e Helen Maria Amory, 1812–1893), Marblehead, Massachusetts; by descent to her daughter Mrs. Oswald Herbert Ernst (n�e Elizabeth Amory Lee, 1843–1939), West Point, New York; by descent to Mrs. William Morton Grinnell (n�e Elizabeth Lee Ernst, 1871–1945), New York; by descent in the Bowen family; sold Sotheby's, New York, January 26 and 28, 1984, lot 843
	Associated names Dr. William Bowen Elizabeth Bowen Helen Maria Amory Elizabeth Amory Lee Elizabeth Lee Ernst Bowen family Sotheby's
	Bibliography Sotheby's, New York, Important American Furniture, Decorations, Silver, and Chinese Export Porcelain, sale cat. (January 26 and 28, 1984), lot 843, ill. Michael Moses, Master Craftsmen of Newport: The Townsends and Goddards (Tenafly, N.J.: MMI Americana Press, 1984), 332, fig. 8.19. 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, 1650–1830, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2016), 313n4.