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From: Elisabeth Donaghy Garrett, "The Manhattan Apartment of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lee Gill," Antiques 111 (May 1977): 998
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High-post bed

Object number

RIF2201

Maker

Maker, formerly attributed to John Goddard, American, 1723–1785
Maker Unknown

Date

1760–85

Current location

Unknown

Geography

Made in Newport, Rhode Island
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Medium

Mahogany

Marks

Unknown

Inscriptions

Unknown

Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lee Gill, New York, by 1953

Associated names

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lee Gill

Bibliography

"Living with Antiques, The New York Apartment of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lee Gill," Antiques 63, no. 2 (February 1953): 123, ill.
Elisabeth Donaghy Garrett, "The Manhattan Apartment of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lee Gill," Antiques 111, no. 5 (May 1977): 998, fig. 12.