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From: "Israel Sack, Inc. advertisement," Antiques 63 (March 1953): 163
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Bureau table

Object number

RIF1791

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

32 1/2 × 37 × 20 3/4 in. (82.55 × 93.98 × 52.705 cm)

Date

1760–80

Current location

Unknown

Geography

Made in Newport, Rhode Island
(view a map of Rhode Island)

Medium

Mahogany

Marks

Unknown

Inscriptions

Unknown

Style

Chippendale

Provenance

George Munson Curtis (1857–1915), Meriden, Connecticut; consigned by his estate to Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, May 14–15, 1948, lot 284. Israel Sack, Inc., New York, 1953

Associated names

George Munson Curtis
Israel Sack, Inc.

Bibliography

Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, The George M. Curtis Collection of Early American Furniture and Silver, sale cat. (May 14–15, 1948), 76–77, lot 284, ill.
F. Lewis Hinckley, A Directory of Antique Furniture: The Authentic Classification of European and American Designs for Professionals and Connoisseurs (New York: Crown Publishers, 1953), 339, fig. 1067.
"Israel Sack, Inc., advertisement," Antiques 63, no. 3 (March 1953): 163, ill.