Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

From: Private collection Click the image to enlarge	Desk and bookcase
	Object number RIF1443
	Maker Maker, formerly attributed to John Townsend, American, 1732/33–1809 Maker Unknown Maker, formerly attributed to John Goddard, American, 1723–1785
	Dimensions 90 1/2 � 45 1/2 � 22 in. (229.871 � 115.57 � 55.88 cm)
	Date 1770–85
	Current location Private Collection
	Geography Probably made in Providence, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany (primary); white pine (drawer linings)
	Marks Unknown
	Inscriptions Unknown
	Provenance Originally owned by Rev. Joseph Barker (1751–1815), Middleborough, Massachusetts. Henry V. Weil (1864–1943), New York; sold to Mrs. J. Amory Haskell (n�e Maragaret Moore Riker, 1864–1942), New York; consigned by her estate to Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, April 26–29, 1944, lot 745; Cornelius C. Moore (1885–1970), Newport, Rhode Island; bequeathed to Providence College, Rhode Island, 1970. Israel Sack, Inc., New York. Christie's, New York, September 18, 1981, lot 543; private collection; consigned to Sotheby's, New York, October 24–25, 1986, lot 246
	Associated names Christie's Mrs. J. Amory Haskell Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. Reverend Joseph Barker Henry V. Weil Sotheby's Private Collection Israel Sack, Inc. Cornelius C. Moore Providence College
	Notes
	See also RIF2125
	Bibliography Christie's, New York, Fine American Furniture, Silver, and Decorative Arts, sale cat. (September 19, 1981), 131, lot 543, ill. Michael Moses, Master Craftsmen of Newport: The Townsends and Goddards (Tenafly, N.J.: MMI Americana Press, 1984), 31, fig. 1.13. Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, The Americana Collection of the late Mrs. J. Amory Haskell, Part One, sale cat. (April 26–29, 1944), 234–235, lot 745. Helen Comstock, "The Haskell Collection," Antiques 155, no.4 (April 1944): 199, fig. 5. Sotheby's, New York, Important American Furniture, Folk Art, Folk Paintings, and Chinese Export Porcelain, sale cat. (October 24–25, 1986), lot 246, ill. "Henry V. Weil advertisement," Antiques 17, no. 5 (November 1929): 419.