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Slant-front desk |
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Object numberRIF1246 |
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MakerMaker Unknown |
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Dimensions41 × 36 × 18 in. (104.14 × 91.44 × 45.72 cm) |
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Date17801800 |
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Current locationGary R. Sullivan Antiques, Inc. |
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GeographyMade in Newport, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumRed cedar (primary); chestnut (upper exterior drawer supports) |
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MarksNone |
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InscriptionsIII, 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 |
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ProvenanceCoggeshall 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 |
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Associated namesCoggeshall familyGustave J. S. White, Inc. |
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BibliographyJeanne 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, 16501830, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2016), 64n99. |