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Slant-front desk

Object number

RIF3438

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

43 × 35 1/2 × 20 in. (109.22 × 90.17 × 50.8 cm)

Date

1760–80

Current location

Unknown

Geography

Made in Rhode Island
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Medium

Maple with late nineteenth-century japanned decoration

Marks

Unknown

Inscriptions

Unknown

Style

Chippendale

Provenance

CRN Auctions, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 18, 2007, lot 112; sold to Antiquario Villas and Cottages Antiques, Woodbury, Connecticut

Associated names

CRN Auctions, Inc.
Antiquario Villas and Cottages Antiques

Bibliography

"CRN Auctions, Inc., Fall Americana and English Auction," Antiques and the Arts Weekly (November 18, 2007): lot 112, ill.
"Americana and English, including The Sally Larkin Case Connecticut Estate," http://www.crnauctions.com/ (accessed August 31, 2009), lot 112 (November 18, 2007 auction).