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Slant-front desk

Object number

RIF2419

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

Height: 46 in. (116.84 cm) Width: 39 3/4 in. (100.965 cm)

Date

1760–80

Current location

Unknown

Geography

Made in Massachusetts, formerly said to have been made in Rhode Island
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Medium

Mahogany (primary)

Marks

Unknown

Inscriptions

Unknown

Provenance

Louis Richmond, Freehold, New Jersey; sold to Mrs. J. Amory Haskell (née Margaret Moore Riker, 1864–1942), New York; consigned by her estate to Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, April 26–29, 1944, lot 717

Associated names

Louis Richmond
Mrs. J. Amory Haskell
Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc.

Bibliography

Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, The Americana Collection of the late Mrs. J. Amory Haskell, Part One, sale cat. (April 26–29, 1944), 210, lot 717, ill.