About the Artwork
Fall Front Desk and base
ca. 1900
Charles Rohlfs
1853-1936
American
Unknown
Oak
Overall: 56 3/4 × 26 5/8 × 24 3/4 inches (144.1 × 67.6 × 62.9 cm)
Furniture
American Art before 1950
Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund, and partial gift of Gary and Melissa Lipton in memory of Leo and Luce Lipton
1993.78
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Carved, proper right inside surface of top: R
Provenance
Gary and Melissa Lipton
1993-present, partial gift and purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Charles Rohlfs, Fall Front Desk and base, ca. 1900, oak. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund, and partial gift of Gary and Melissa Lipton in memory of Leo and Luce Lipton, 1993.78.
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