Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy of Gary R. Sullivan Antiques, Inc., Sharon, Mass. Click the image to enlarge	Slant-front desk
	Object number RIF1246
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions 41 � 36 � 18 in. (104.14 � 91.44 � 45.72 cm)
	Date 1780–1800
	Current location Gary R. Sullivan Antiques, Inc.
	Geography Made in Newport, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Red cedar (primary); chestnut (upper exterior drawer supports)
	Marks None
	Inscriptions “III,” incised, on interior front top prospect drawer; “X,” in chalk, on exterior back of that drawer; “II,” incised, on interior front middle prospect drawer; illegible chalk, on exterior back of that drawer; “X,” incised, on interior front bottom prospect drawer; “X,” in chalk, on exterior back of that drawer; "A" through "D," in graphite, on interior backs and at interior front corners of lower tier of drawers flanking prospect door; "X," in graphite, on some interior sides of those drawers; "X," in chalk, on exterior rear proper right valance drawer; "X," incised on interior front of that drawer; "1," in chalk, on exterior back of proper left valance drawer; "1" through "4," in chalk, on exterior backs of exterior drawers; "V," in chalk pointing up, on exterior drawers 1 and 4; "X," in chalk, on exterior back of drawer 4; "3," in chalk twice, on exterior back of drawer 4; "1" through "4," in later graphite, on those drawer backs
	Provenance Coggeshall family, Newport, Rhode Island; consigned to Gustave J. S. White, Inc., Newport, Rhode Island, February 2017; sold to Gary. R. Sullivan Antiques, Inc., Sharon, Massachusetts, 2017
	Associated names Coggeshall family Gustave J. S. White, Inc.
	Bibliography Jeanne Vibert Sloane, "John Cahoone and the Newport Furniture Industry," Old-Time New England 72 (1987): 105, fig. 5. 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), 64n99.