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Slant-front desk

Object number

RIF2469

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

42 × 39 1/4 × 21 in. (106.68 × 99.695 × 53.34 cm)

Date

1770–90

Current location

Unknown

Geography

Made in Newport, Rhode Island
(view a map of Rhode Island)

Medium

Mahogany

Marks

Unknown

Inscriptions

Unknown

Provenance

John S. Walton, Greenwich, Connecticut, 1949. Mr. and Mrs. John W. Batdorf, Meadowbrook, Pennsylvania. Sotheby's, New York, June 17–18, 1997, lot 229

Associated names

John S. Walton, Inc.
Sotheby's
John W. Batdorf
Mrs. John W. Batdorf

Bibliography

Sotheby's, New York, Important Americana, sale cat. (June 17–18, 1997), lot 229, ill.
Lita Solis-Cohen, "Living with Antiques: The Pennsylvania Home of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Batdorf," Antiques 90, no. 2 (August 1966): 225.