Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

From: "Museum Accessions," Antiques 98 (December, 1974): 216 Click the image to enlarge	Desk and bookcase
	Object number RIF6448
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions 90 � 45 1/2 � 26 3/4 in. (228.6 � 115.57 � 67.95 cm)
	Date 1765–85
	Current location Private Collection
	Geography Probably made in Massachusetts, formerly said to have been made in Connecticut, formerly said to have been made in Newport, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Cherry (primary, by microanalysis); white pine (secondary, by microanalysis); sheet glass (bookcase doors)
	Marks None
	Inscriptions Unknown
	Provenance By descent in the Flagg family of Massachusetts and Hampden, Maine; to Bernard P. Miller (1879–1952), Palo Alto and San Francisco; sold to Dr. Michael A. Abrams (1885–1968), Baltimore; bequest to Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore; consigned to auction; sold to Ann Holzer (1917–1999) and Philip Holzer (1919–2011), Great Neck, New York
	Associated names Dr. Michael A. Abrams Maryland Historical Society Gershon Flagg III Bernard P. Miller Gershon Flagg IV Gershon Flagg V Mary Nickerson Flagg Mary Elizabeth Flagg Ann Holzer Philip Holzer
	Bibliography Ruth Davidson, "Museum Accessions," Antiques 98, no. 2 (August 1970): 216, ill. Philip Holzer, Philip and Ann Holzer Collection (n.p.: privately printed, 1990), 74–81, no. 26, ill.

Desk and bookcase