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From: Jeanne Vibert Sloane, "John Cahoone and the Newport Furniture Industry," New England Furniture:Essays in Memory of Benno M. Forman (Boston: Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, 1987), 108, fig.8
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Slant-front desk

Object number

RIF1249

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

38 1/4 × 47 × 18 in. (97.155 × 119.38 × 45.72 cm)

Date

1745–90

Current location

Unknown

Geography

Made in Rhode Island, Probably made in Bristol, Rhode Island
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Medium

Maple (primary); white pine (secondary)

Marks

Unknown

Inscriptions

Unknown

Provenance

By descent in a Bristol, Rhode Island family; by descent to the present owner

Associated names

Bristol family

Bibliography

Jeanne Vibert Sloane, "John Cahoone and the Newport Furniture Industry," Old-Time New England 72 (1987): 108, fig. 8.