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Slant front desk, 1760–1800, Cherry
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Desk · Rhode Island

Slant front desk

Maker unknown · Rhode Island · 1760–1800

Medium
Cherry
Dimensions
45 × 45 1/2 × 25 1/2 in. (114.3 × 115.6 × 64.8 cm)
Accession
2016.797.6
Credit line
Bequest of Mrs. Screven Lorillard (Alice Whitney), from the collection of Mrs. J. Insley Blair, 2016
Culture
American
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