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Photo: Taylor and Dull, Courtesy Historic Deerfield, Inc., Mass., HD 58.188 (deaccessioned in 1985)
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Desk-on-frame (base only)

Object number

RIF1317

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

29 × 28 × 19 1/2 in. (73.66 × 71.12 × 49.53 cm)

Date

1790–1805

Current location

Unknown

Geography

Probably made in Rhode Island
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Medium

Mahogany and light wood inlay (primary); pine and yellow poplar (secondary); marble (top)

Marks

Unknown

Inscriptions

Unknown

Provenance

Historic Deerfield, Inc., Massachusetts, between 1976 and 1985. Skinner, Inc., Boston and Bolton, Massachusetts (sale held Bolton, Massachusetts), March 25, 1989, lot 146

Associated names

Historic Deerfield, Inc.
Skinner, Inc.

See also

Bibliography

Dean A. Fales, Jr., The Furniture of Historic Deerfield (New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1976), 128, fig. 265.
Skinner, Inc., Boston and Bolton, Mass., Americana, sale cat. (March 25, 1989), lot 146.