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Slant-front desk

Object number

RIF266

Maker

Maker Unknown

Date

1760–90

Current location

Unknown

Geography

Made in Rhode Island
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Medium

Mahogany

Marks

Unknown

Inscriptions

Unknown

Provenance

John S. Walton, Inc., New York; sold to Mr. and Mrs. Lewis T. Steadman, by 1971

Associated names

John S. Walton, Inc.
Lewis T. Steadman
Mrs. Lewis T. Steadman

Bibliography

David A. Hanks, American Art of the Colonies and Early Republic, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1971), 30–31, fig. 25.