Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Sotheby's, New York Click the image to enlarge	Slant-front desk
	Object number RIF3493
	Maker Maker, formerly attributed to John Townsend, American, 1732/33–1809 Maker Unknown
	Dimensions 41 3/4 � 36 3/4 � 20 in. (106.045 � 93.345 � 50.8 cm)
	Date 1760–80
	Current location Unknown
	Geography Made in Newport, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany
	Marks According to the Sotheby's catalogue, John Walton's bill of sale states that the underside of the desk bears a chalk inscription which includes John Townsend's name.
	Inscriptions Interior of one short drawer bears a label from John Walton, Inc.
	Provenance John Walton, Inc., Griswold and Jewett City, Connecticut, before 1989. Sotheby's, New York, January 18–19, 2001, lot 806
	Associated names Sotheby's John S. Walton, Inc.
	See also RIF6052
	Bibliography Sotheby's, New York, Important Americana Including Silver, Prints, Folk Art, Furniture, and Property Formerly in the Estate of Ulysses S. Grant, sale cat. (January 18–19, 2001), 306–7, lot 806, ill.

Slant-front desk