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Slant-front desk

Object number

RIF3777

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

42 × 36 1/2 × 21 1/2 in. (106.68 × 92.71 × 54.61 cm)

Date

1760–80

Current location

Unknown

Geography

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

Medium

Mahogany

Marks

Unknown

Inscriptions

Unknown

Style

Chippendale

Provenance

Hyman Grossman, Boston, Massachusetts. Northeast Auctions, Hampton and Portsmouth and Hampton, New Hampshire (sale held Manchester, New Hampshire), March 1–2, 1997, lot 655

Associated names

Hyman Grossman
Northeast Auctions

Bibliography

Northeast Auctions, Portsmouth, N.H., Important American, English and Continental Furniture, sale cat. (March 1–2, 1997), 30, lot 655, ill.