Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Sotheby's, New York Click the image to enlarge	Slant-front desk
	Object number RIF2159
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions Length: 40 in. (101.6 cm) Depth: 20 1/2 in. (52.07 cm) Height, to lid: 29 1/2 in. (74.93 cm)
	Date 1760–80
	Current location Unknown
	Geography Made in Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany
	Marks Unknown
	Inscriptions Unknown
	Provenance Israel Sack, Inc., New York, 1942 and 1958. Mr. Edward H. Tevriz (1902–1968) and Mrs. Edward H. Tevriz (n�e Eulalia Crum Blair), New York, by 1966. Sotheby's, New York, January 21–22, 2000, lot 700
	Associated names Israel Sack, Inc. Edward H. Tevriz Mrs. Edward H. Tevriz
	Bibliography "Israel Sack, Inc., advertisement," Antiques 39, no. 1 (January 1942): 14. Albert Sack, Fine Points of Furniture: Early American (New York: Crown Publishers, 1950), 146, ill. American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, 10 vols. (Washington, D.C.: Highland House Publishers, 1957–1989), vol. 1, p. 44, no. 136. Helen Comstock, "American Furniture in the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Tevriz," Antiques 89, no. 2 (February 1966): 257. Sotheby's, New York, Important Americana, sale cat. (January 21–22, 2000), 365, lot 700, ill.

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