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Child's desk-on-frame

Object number

RIF715

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

34 1/2 × 24 × 13 3/16 in. (87.63 × 60.96 × 33.496 cm)

Date

1740–60

Current location

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Geography

Made in, Possibly made in Rhode Island
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Medium

Maple, stained red (primary, large drawer bottoms, and back of desk); chestnut (large drawer sides); pine (sides and bottom of interior drawers)

Marks

None

Inscriptions

Unknown

Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. Harold A. Pitman; given to Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1945

Associated names

Harold A. Pitman
Mrs. Harold A. Pitman

Construction

Each of the upper drawers have locks, while the lowest was never fitted with one.

See also

Bibliography

Richard H Randall, Jr., American Furniture in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1965), 72–73, no. 56, ill.