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          <mods:titleInfo>
            <mods:title>Lady's writing table and chair</mods:title>
          </mods:titleInfo>
          <mods:name type="corporate">
            <mods:namePart>Gorham Manufacturing Company</mods:namePart>
            <mods:role>
              <mods:roleTerm type="text">manufacturer</mods:roleTerm>
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          </mods:name>
          <mods:name type="personal">
            <mods:namePart>Codman, William Christmas</mods:namePart>
            <mods:namePart type="date">1839-1921</mods:namePart>
            <mods:role>
              <mods:roleTerm type="text">designer</mods:roleTerm>
            </mods:role>
          </mods:name>
          <mods:name type="personal">
            <mods:namePart>Ziegler, Franz</mods:namePart>
            <mods:role>
              <mods:roleTerm type="text">carver</mods:roleTerm>
            </mods:role>
          </mods:name>
          <mods:name type="personal">
            <mods:namePart>Straker, Joseph Edward</mods:namePart>
            <mods:role>
              <mods:roleTerm type="text">silversmith</mods:roleTerm>
            </mods:role>
          </mods:name>
          <mods:name type="corporate">
            <mods:namePart>Potter and Company</mods:namePart>
            <mods:role>
              <mods:roleTerm type="text">cabinetmaker</mods:roleTerm>
            </mods:role>
          </mods:name>
          <mods:typeOfResource>still image</mods:typeOfResource>
          <mods:genre authority="aat">photographs</mods:genre>
          <mods:genre authority="aat">ladies' writing tables</mods:genre>
          <mods:genre authority="aat">desk chairs</mods:genre>
          <mods:originInfo>
            <mods:dateIssued encoding="w3cdtf" keyDate="yes">1903</mods:dateIssued>
          </mods:originInfo>
          <mods:language>
            <mods:languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">xxz</mods:languageTerm>
          </mods:language>
          <mods:physicalDescription>
            <mods:extent>1 photograph; 67.6 x 69 cm.</mods:extent>
            <mods:digitalOrigin>reformatted digital</mods:digitalOrigin>
          </mods:physicalDescription>
          <mods:abstract>Writing desk made for the Gorham display at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis. Also displayed at the Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco in 1915</mods:abstract>
          <mods:note>Materials: ebony, mahogany, boxwood, redwood, thuyawood, ivory, mother-of-pearl, silver, mirrored glass, and gilded tooled leather</mods:note>
          <mods:note>Style: Art nouveau</mods:note>
          <mods:note>Stamped with Gorham (lion, anchor, G) marks and "sterling" and "C/C/X" on backside of mirror</mods:note>
          <mods:note>Signed: "WC Codman 1903", burnished along top right edge of center drawer.</mods:note>
          <mods:note>Measurements of original: 48.5 x 54 x 30 in. (to the height of the mirror); 31 x 54 x 30 in.(to the height of the tabletop); 30 x 18 x 21 in. (chair); 18 in. (height to the seat of the chair)</mods:note>
          <mods:note>Repository: Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design</mods:note>
          <mods:note type="provenance">Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick B. Thurber</mods:note>
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            <mods:titleInfo>
              <mods:title>Gorham Collection</mods:title>
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            <mods:identifier type="COLID">44</mods:identifier>
            <mods:identifier type="URI">http://dl.lib.brown.edu</mods:identifier>
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          <mods:identifier displayLabel="RISD Museum accession no." type="local">58.095</mods:identifier>
          <mods:identifier type="METSID">1242315134765625</mods:identifier>
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