Very Rare Queen Anne Child's Maple Desk-on-Frame, Rhode Island or Eastern Connecticut, Circa 1750

Mitchel M. Taradash (1889–1973), Ardsley-on-Hudson, New York;

Israel Sack, Inc., New York;

Sotheby's, New York, Selections from Israel Sack, Inc., January 20, 2002, sale 7761, lot 1371.

Alice Winchester, "Living with Antiques: The Home of Mr. and Mrs. Mitchel Taradash," Magazine Antiques, (January 1953) 93;

American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, vol. 7. (Washington, DC: Highland House Publishers), p. 1919, no. P5281;

Yale University Art Gallery, Rhode Island Furniture Archive, RIF2494;

Yale University Library, Israel Sack Archives, acc. no. 5281A.

A very similar child's desk-on-frame is the the collection of Henry Francis duPont Museum (acc. no. 1959.2114) (see Nancy E. Richards and Nancy Goyne Evans, New England Furniture at Winterthur: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods, (Winterthur, DE: Winterthur Museum, distributed by University Press of New England, 1997, pp. 413-4). Another similar desk-on-frame is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (acc. no. 45.808) (see Richard H. Randall, Jr., American Furniture in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, (Boston, MA: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1965), no. 56). A third in a private collection was sold at Northeast Auctions, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Estate Collection of American Furniture and Chinese Export Porcelain, March 2, 2002, lot 173.