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Slant-front desk

Object number

RIF3242

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

41 1/2 × 39 3/4 × 21 3/4 in. (105.41 × 100.965 × 55.245 cm)

Date

1760–90

Current location

Unknown

Geography

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

Medium

Sabicu (primary)

Marks

Unknown

Inscriptions

Unknown

Style

Chippendale

Provenance

Teina Baumstone, New York, 1965. Bernard and S. Dean Levy, Inc., New York. Sotheby's, New York, January 23–25, 1992, lot 1236. Bernard and S. Dean Levy, Inc., New York, 1992

Associated names

Bernard and S. Dean Levy, Inc.
Sotheby's

Bibliography

"Teina Baumstone advertisement," Antiques 87, no. 1 (January 1965): 6.
"Bernard and S. Dean Levy, Inc., advertisement," Antiques 142, no. 5 (November 1992): 585, ill.
Sotheby's, New York, Fine Americana, sale cat. (January 23–25, 1992), lot 1236, ill.