Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Cherry Fletcher Bamberg, FASG Click the image to enlarge	Slat-back armchair
	Object number RIF5942
	Maker Maker attributed Thomas Taylor, 1772 - 1857
	Dimensions 114.3 x 67.31 x 64.77 cm (45 x 26 1/2 x 25 1/2 in.)
	Date 1800–1825
	Current location Historic New England (www.historicnewengland.com), formerly Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities
	Geography Made in Warwick, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Maple (stiles, arms, arm supports, front legs, front stretcher, and rockers); ash (slats and rear and side stretchers)
	Marks None
	Inscriptions None
	Style vernacular style
	Provenance By descent in the family of the chair maker Thomas Taylor (1772–1857), Warwick, Rhode Island, to Cherry Fletcher Bamberg, Marlboro, Massachusetts; gift to Historic New England, Boston, 2012
	Associated names Cherry Fletcher Bamberg
	Notes The chair retains traces of an old red paint that may be original.
	Bibliography Cherry 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, 1650–1830, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2016), 366n1.

Slat-back armchair