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From: Joseph K. Ott, The John Brown House Loan Exhibition of Rhode Island Furniture(Providence, R.I.: Rhode Island Historical Society, 1965), 72, cat. no. 50
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Chest of drawers

Object number

RIF1819

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

30 7/8 × 36 × 20 1/4 in. (78.423 × 91.44 × 51.435 cm)

Date

1760–80

Current location

Unknown

Geography

Probably made in Rhode Island
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Medium

Mahogany (primary); pine (secondary)

Marks

Unknown

Inscriptions

Unknown

Provenance

Israel Sack, Inc., New York; sold to Cornelius C. Moore (1885–1970), Newport, Rhode Island, before 1970; consigned by his estate to Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, October 30, 1971, lot 74

Associated names

Israel Sack, Inc.
Cornelius C. Moore
Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc.

Construction

Unknown

Bibliography

Joseph K. Ott, The John Brown House Loan Exhibition of Rhode Island Furniture, exh. cat. (Providence: The Rhode Island Historical Society, 1965), 72–73, no. 50, ill.
Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, Important American Furniture: Property from the Estate of the Late Cornelius C. Moore, sale cat. (October 30, 1971), 15, lot 74, ill.