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Slant-front desk

Object number

RIF4061

Maker

Maker, attributed to Thomas White, 1696?1788

Dimensions

43 1/4 × 43 1/2 × 21 5/8 in. (109.86 × 110.49 × 54.93 cm)

Date

1760–80

Current location

Private collection

Geography

Made in North Carolina
(view a map of Rhode Island)

Medium

Walnut with white cedar; yellow pine, and walnut

Style

Chippendale

Provenance

Mark and Marjorie Allen, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 2008

Associated names

Mark & Marjorie Allen Antiques

Bibliography

John Bivins, "Rhode Island Influence in the Work of Two North Carolina Cabinetmakers," American Furniture (1999): 90–92, fig. 11, 13, and 16.
"Mark and Marjorie Allen advertisement," Antiques and Fine Art 8, no. 6 (Summer/Autumn 2008): 102, ill.