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Slant-front desk

Object number

RIF4753

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

38 3/4 × 32 1/4 × 19 in. (98.425 × 81.915 × 48.26 cm)

Date

1730–1750

Current location

Little Compton Historical Society

Geography

Made in Rhode Island
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Medium

Maple and pine

Provenance

Little Compton Historical Society, Rhode Island

Bibliography

Little Compton Historical Society, "Slant-front desk," http://littlecompton.pastperfect-online.com/35259cgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=1A7ACE22-1053-4B42-91C0-326148715044;type=10 (accessed March 18, 2010).
Patricia E. Kane et al., Art and Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 1650–1830, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2016), 200n1.