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Desk-on-frame

Object number

RIF6614

Maker

Maker Unknown

Date

1760–1780

Current location

Stanley Weiss Collection

Geography

Made in Rhode Island
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Medium

Mahogany (primary); pine (secondary)

Inscriptions

Illegible chalk inscriptions on underside of lift top and one exterior drawer bottom.

Provenance

The Stanley Weiss Collection, Providence, Rhode Island, 2019

Bibliography

Stanley Weiss and Brock Jobe, Fine American Antiques in the Stanley Weiss Collection (Providence, R.I.: Stanley Weiss Collection, 2019), 11, sw01520, ill.