Photo: Courtesy Cherry Fletcher Bamberg, FASG
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Slat-back armchair |
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Object numberRIF5942 |
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MakerMaker attributed Thomas Taylor, 17721857 |
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Dimensions45 x 26 1/2 x 25 1/2 in. (114.3 x 67.31 x 64.77 cm) |
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Date18001825 |
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Current locationHistoric New England (www.historicnewengland.com), formerly Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities |
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GeographyMade in Warwick, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumMaple (stiles, arms, arm supports, front legs, front stretcher, and rockers); ash (slats and rear and side stretchers) |
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MarksNone |
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InscriptionsNone |
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Stylevernacular style |
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ProvenanceBy descent in the family of the chair maker Thomas Taylor (17721857), Warwick, Rhode Island, to Cherry Fletcher Bamberg, Marlboro, Massachusetts; gift to Historic New England, Boston, 2012 |
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Associated namesCherry Fletcher Bamberg |
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NotesThe chair retains traces of an old red paint that may be original. |
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BibliographyCherry Fletcher Bamberg, "A Line of Descent from Ambrose Taylor, Chairmaker of Apponaug," Rhode Island Roots 39, no. 3 (September 2013): 119, ill.Patricia E. Kane et al., Art and Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 16501830, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2016), 366n1. |