CHIPPENDALE DESK AND BOOKCASE Wallingford Circa 1790 Attributed to Silas Rice Primary Wood: Cherry, Secondary Wood: White Pine, Cherry Height: 88 inches, Width: 40 inches, Depth: 22 inches Provenance: Miss Mary E. Hubbard, Connecticut; George and William Samaha, Ohio; Private Collection, Michigan. References: Illustrated and exhibited in A Furniture Festival; Early American Furniture from Collections in the Western Reserve, 1969 , entry 22 and Three Centuries of Connecticut Furniture, 1635-1935 , #110. For a discussion of the Silas Rice group and other similar examples please see Thomas P. and Alice K. Kugelman with Robert Lionetti, Connecticut Valley Furniture, Eliphalet Chapin and His Contemporaries, 1750-1800 , pages 406-416.
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