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THE ICHABOD COLE SIGNED TWO SHELL BONNET TOP SECRETARY
Signed and Dated Ichabod Cole, 1790 Warren, Rhode Island
Primary Wood: Mahogany Secondary Woods: Chestnut, Mahogany, Pine
Height: 92 inches Width: 40 inches Depth: 23 inches
Provenance: Found in a house in Seekonk, Massachusetts; John S. Walton Antiques, Jewett City, Connecticut; Private Collection, Virginia.
Reference: Exhibited in Art & Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 1650-1830 at Yale University, August 2016-January 2017, and illustrated in the accompanying catalog, number 79 (Rhode Island Furniture Archive, number 581).
This secretary is also illustrated in Michael Moses' Master Craftsmen of Newport; The Townsends and Goddards, pages 306-307, figures 8.2, 8.2a and 8.2b. It appears in the May 1982 issue of The Magazine Antiques, page 980
as well as on the cover of the May 2007 issue of
The Magazine Antiques and is the centerpiece of
an article by Patricia Kane in the same magazine.