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From: Ott, Joseph K., "The John Brown House Loan Exhibition of Rhode Island Furniture" (Providence, R.I.: The Providence Historical Society, 1965): 108- 109.
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Desk and bookcase

Object number

RIF2125

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

89 × 39 × 24 in. (226.061 × 99.06 × 60.96 cm)

Date

1770–85

Current location

Unknown

Geography

Made in Providence, Rhode Island
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Medium

Mahogany (primary); cherry, cedar, chestnut, yellow poplar (secondary)

Marks

Unknown

Inscriptions

Unknown

Provenance

Ginsburg and Levy, Inc., New York, 1964; sold to Joseph K. Ott (1929–1994), Providence, Rhode Island

Associated names

Ginsburg and Levy, Inc.
Joseph K. Ott

See also

Bibliography

Wendy A. Cooper and Tara L. Gleason, "A Different Rhode Island Block-and-Shell Story: Providence Provenances and Pitch-Pediments," American Furniture (1999): 201, fig. 60.
"Ginsburg and Levy, Inc., advertisement," Antiques 85, no. 2 (February 1964): 149.
Joseph K. Ott, The John Brown House Loan Exhibition of Rhode Island Furniture, exh. cat. (Providence: The Rhode Island Historical Society, 1965), 108–9, no. 68, ill.
Joseph K. Ott, "Some Rhode Island Furniture," Antiques 107, no. 5 (May 1975): 945, fig. 8.