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From: American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, vol. 3 (Alexandria, Va.: Highland House Publishers, 1972): 596–597, 1363
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Slant-front desk

Object number

RIF1644

Maker

Maker Unknown
Maker, possibly by Job Townsend, Sr., 1699?1765
Maker, formerly attributed to John Goddard, American, 1723?1785

Dimensions

44 × 42 1/2 × 22 1/2 in. (111.76 × 107.95 × 57.15 cm) Height (writing level): 31 1/2 in. (80.01 cm)

Date

1745–85

Current location

Dietrich American Foundation

Geography

Made in Rhode Island
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Medium

Mahogany

Marks

Unknown

Inscriptions

Unknown

Style

Chippendale

Provenance

Israel Sack, Inc., New York, 1970; sold to the Dietrich Americana Foundation, Philadelphia

Associated names

Israel Sack, Inc.

Bibliography

American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, 10 vols. (Washington, D.C.: Highland House Publishers, 1957–1989), vol. 3, pp. 584, 596–597, 1363, ill.
Alexandra W. Rollins, "Furniture in the Collection of the Dietrich American Foundation," Antiques 125, no. 5 (May 1984): 1112, pl. XV, fig. 13, 13a.
Michael Moses, Master Craftsmen of Newport: The Townsends and Goddards (Tenafly, N.J.: MMI Americana Press, 1984), 276, fig. 7.5, 7.5a, 7.5b.