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From: Walter A. Dyer, "John Goddard and His Block-Fronts," Antiques 5 (May 1922): 206
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Slant-front desk

Object number

RIF456

Maker

Maker Unknown
Maker, possibly by Thomas Goddard, 1765?1858

Date

1790–1810

Current location

Unknown

Geography

Possibly made in Newport, Rhode Island
(view a map of Rhode Island)

Marks

Unknown

Inscriptions

Unknown

Style

Hepplewhite, Federal

Provenance

Mrs. William W. Covell, Newport, Rhode Island, by 1922

Associated names

Mrs. William W. Covell

Bibliography

Walter A. Dyer, "John Goddard and His Block Fronts," Antiques 1, no. 5 (May 1922): 206, fig. 11.
Northeast Auctions, Hampton and Portsmouth, N.H., Important Americana, sale cat. (March 1–2, 2003), 59, lot 470.