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Desk and bookcase

Object number

RIF1908

Maker

Maker Unknown

Date

1780–85

Current location

Unknown

Geography

Made in Providence, Rhode Island
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Medium

Maple

Style

Chippendale

Provenance

By descent in the Tingley family, Providence, and Cumberland, Rhode Island. John Walton, Inc., Griswold and Jewett City, Connecticut, 1982

Associated names

Tingley family
John Walton, Inc.

Bibliography

"John S. Walton Antiques, Inc., advertisement," Antiques (April 1982): 754, ill.
Elton W. Hall, "Living with Antiques: A House in Southeastern Massachusetts," Antiques 124, no. 1 (July 1983): 151, pl. 7.