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Dressing glass |
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Object numberRIF960 |
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MakerMaker Unknown |
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Dimensions22 3/4 × 19 × 9 in. (57.785 × 48.26 × 22.86 cm) |
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Date17901810 |
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Current locationRhode Island School of Design Museum |
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GeographyMade in Providence, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumMahogany, satinwood (primary); yellow poplar, cedar, pine (secondary); ivory (pull) |
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MarksNone |
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Inscriptions"Prov." in blue chalk on the exterior back of the right drawer |
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ProvenancePossibly Elisha Dyer (17721854), Providence, Rhode Island; by descent to Mrs. Elisha Dyer (died 1922); given by her estate to the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, 1922 |
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Associated namesElisha DyerMrs. Elisha Dyer Dyer family |
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BibliographyJoseph K. Ott, The John Brown House Loan Exhibition of Rhode Island Furniture, exh. cat. (Providence: The Rhode Island Historical Society, 1965), 13031, no. 85, ill.Eleanore Bradford Monahon, "Providence Cabinetmakers of the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries," Antiques 87, no. 5 (May 1965): 579, fig. 16. Christopher P. Monkhouse and Thomas S. Michie, American Furniture in Pendleton House (Providence: Rhode Island School of Design Museum, 1986), 6667, no. 13, ill. |