Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy The Chipstone Foundation, Fox Point, Wis., 1976.7; photo by Gavin Ashworth Click the image to enlarge	Side chair
	Object number RIF297
	Maker Maker John Carlile and Sons, active 1789–1803
	Dimensions 99.06 x 53.975 x 54.61 cm (39 x 21 1/4 x 21 1/2 in.)
	Date 1789–1803
	Current location The Chipstone Foundation
	Geography Made in Providence, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany (primary); birch (seat rails); maple (cross braces); pine (glue blocks)
	Marks "MADE AND SOLD BY / JOHN CARLILE & SONS. / All kinds of CABINET WORK done, in / the best Manner, and at the shortest / Notice, at their Shop, just Southward of the / Market, in Providence, State of Rhode- / Island, &c.," printed, on paper label glued to interior face of rear seat rail
	Inscriptions None
	Style Hepplewhite
	Provenance John Walton, Inc., Griswold and Jewett City, Connecticut; sold to Polly Mariner Stone (1898–1995) and Stanley Stone (1896–1987), Fox Point, Wisconsin, 1976; bequeathed by Stanley Stone to The Chipstone Foundation, Fox Point, 1987
	Associated names John Walton, Inc. Stanley Stone Polly Mariner Stone
	Construction The curving, molded-front and rounded-back stiles are continuous with the square, tapering, rearward and inward-raking rear legs. The stiles are tenoned to the similarly worked serpentine crest, each joint showing, at the back only, one wood pin. The openwork splat, tenoned into the crest?s underside, consists of carved feathers, integral in part with the crest rail, above an ellipse centering a reeded urn flanked by leaf-carved swags, above five curving uprights atop a fluted and molded partial pattern. The lower portion of the shield-shaped rail is a separate piece. A molded strip is applied with brads and wood-filled fasteners to the top of the rear seat rail, which is tenoned and wood-pinned to the leg/stiles. The side seat rails are through-tenoned to the legs/stiles, each tenon containing several wood wedges. The joints between the molded, tapering legs, serpentine front rail and straight side rails are covered by upholstery. At the front corners of the seat frame are vertical trapezoidal glue blocks. Inside each corner of the frame is a diagonal brace, glued and set into notches, laid out with prominent scribe lines, at the top of the adjacent seat rails. The rear, medial and side stretchers are tenoned, without wood pins, to their respective neighboring elements. Examined by P. E. Kane and J. N. Johnson, May 23, 2014; notes compiled by T. B. Lloyd.
	See also RIF35 RIF41 RIF251 RIF270 RIF714 RIF720 RIF750 RIF950 RIF1263 RIF1336 RIF1343 RIF1364 RIF1377 RIF1540 RIF2289 RIF2381 RIF2403 RIF2420 RIF2554 RIF2813 RIF3006 RIF3115 RIF3176 RIF3276 RIF3437 RIF3482 RIF3539 RIF3669 RIF3859 RIF3861 RIF4153 RIF4177 RIF4269 RIF4365 RIF4436 RIF4522 RIF4606 RIF4920 RIF4921 RIF4922 RIF4923 RIF4924 RIF4925 RIF4932 RIF4933 RIF6169 RIF6314 RIF6350
	Bibliography Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque, American Furniture at Chipstone (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984), 154–155, no. 68, 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), 432n3.