Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Sotheby's, New York Click the image to enlarge	Slant-front desk
	Object number RIF2874
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions 42 1/2 � 36 � 19 3/4 in. (107.95 � 91.44 � 50.165 cm)
	Date 1750–70
	Current location Unknown
	Geography Made in Newport, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany (primary); chestnut and pine (secondary)
	Marks Unknown
	Inscriptions Unknown
	Provenance Mary E. K. Sullivan, Salem, Massachusetts, before 1980; consigned by her estate to Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, November 19–22, 1980, lot 1373. John Walton, Inc., Griswold and Jewett City, Connecticut; sold to a private collection, Massachusetts; consigned to Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., January 27 and 29, 1983, lot 411; Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., December 8, 1984, lot 319. Philip H. Bradley Company, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, 1986. Northeast Auctions, Hampton and Portsmouth, New Hampshire, November 11–12, 2000, lot 773. Miller, Hamilton and Company, Inc., Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 2002
	Associated names Mary E. K. Sullivan Sotheby Parke Bernet John S. Walton, Inc. Sotheby Parke Bernet Philip H. Bradley Co. Northeast Auctions Miller, Hamilton & Co., Inc.
	Notes
	Bibliography Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, Important American Furniture and Related Decorative Arts, sale cat. (November 19–22, 1980), lot 1373, ill. Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, Important American Furniture, and Related Decorative Arts, sale cat. (January 27 and 29, 1983), lot 411, ill. Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, Important American Furniture and Folk Art, sale cat. (December 8, 1984), lot 319, ill. "Philip H. Bradley Co. advertisement," Antiques 129, no. 2 (February 1986): 320, ill. Northeast Auctions, Portsmouth, N.H., New Hampshire Auction: Fine American Furniture, sale cat. (November 11–12, 2000), 97, lot 773. "Miller, Hamilton and Company, Inc., advertisement," Maine Antique Digest (October 2002): 2–E, ill.