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From: Joseph K. Ott, The John Brown House Loan Exhibition of Rhode Island Furniture(Providence, R.I.: Rhode Island Historical Society, 1965), 101, cat. no. 64
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Dressing table

Object number

RIF975

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

32 × 36 3/4 × 20 3/4 in. (81.28 × 93.345 × 52.705 cm)

Date

1760–1780

Current location

Unknown

Geography

Made in Newport, Rhode Island
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Medium

Mahoganyt (primary); pine (secondary)

Provenance

Israel Sack, Inc., New York, 1955. Mr. Thomas S. Saltz (1895–1990), and Mrs. Julia F. Saltz (1916–2001), Washington, D.C., by 1965

Associated names

Israel Sack, Inc.
S. Thomas Saltz
Julia F. Saltz

See also

Bibliography

Joseph K. Ott, The John Brown House Loan Exhibition of Rhode Island Furniture, exh. cat. (Providence: The Rhode Island Historical Society, 1965), 100–101, no. 64, ill.
"Shop Talk," Antiques 67, no. 2 (February 1955): 98, ill.