From: Jeanne Vibert Sloane, "John Cahoone and the Newport Furniture Industry," New England Furniture:Essays in Memory of Benno M. Forman (Boston: Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, 1987), 106, fig. 6
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Slant-front desk |
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Object numberRIF3365 |
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MakerMaker Unknown |
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Dimensions40 7/8 × 38 3/8 × 20 7/16 in. (103.823 × 97.473 × 51.911 cm) |
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Date175570 |
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Current locationPrivate Collection |
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GeographyProbably made in Newport, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumMaple (primary); chestnut (exterior drawer linings); yellow poplar (interior drawer linings) |
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MarksUnknown |
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InscriptionsUnknown |
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ProvenancePrivate collection, descended in the family of the owner in Edenton, North Carolina |
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Associated namesEdenton, North Carolina family |
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BibliographyJeanne Vibert Sloane, "John Cahoone and the Newport Furniture Industry," Old-Time New England 72 (1987): 106, fig. 6.Sarah Neale Fayen, "Tilt-Top Tables and Eighteenth-Century Consumerism," American Furniture (2003): 121122, fig. 38. Luke Beckerdite, "The Early Furniture of Christopher and Job Townsend," American Furniture (2000): 28, fig. 47. John Bivins, "A Catalog of Northern Furniture with Southern Provenances," Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts (November 1989): 60, fig. 15. John Bivins, The Furniture of Coastal North Carolina: 17001820 (Winston-Salem, N.C.: Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, 1988), 103-104, plate 4.14. |