Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Skinner, Inc., Boston and Marlborough, Mass. Click the image to enlarge	Easy chair
	Object number RIF737
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions 44 1/8 � 32 � 27 in. (112.08 � 81.28 � 68.58 cm) Height, seat: 14 in. (35.56 cm)
	Date 1780–1800
	Current location Private collection
	Geography Probably made in Newport, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany (primary); maple (secondary)
	Marks None
	Inscriptions "Jabes Huntington's / chair - from Edith / (Huntington) Wilson, " engraved on a copper tag on the inside of one leg; illegible inscription, in chalk, on rear surface of crest; loops, in graphite, on rear surface of crest, exterior wings, and exterior wing supports
	Style Chippendale
	Provenance General Jabez Huntington (1719–1786), Norwich, Connecticut; by descent Jedediah Huntington (1743–1818), Norwich, Connecticut; by descent to his son, Jabez Huntington (1767–1848), Norwich, Connecticut; by descent to Edith Huntington Wilson (1869–1939). Clifford Everett Hale Whitlock (1912–2003), New Haven, Connecticut. Skinner, Inc., Boston and Bolton, Massachusetts, June 5, 2005, lot 82. Private collection, New England. Nadeau's Auction Gallery, Windsor, Connecticut, October 11, 2008, lot 60; private collection, 2008
	Associated names Jabez Huntington Jedediah Huntington Jabez Huntington, Jr. Edith Huntington Wilson Clifford Everett Hale Whitlock Skinner, Inc. Private collection Nadeau's Auction Gallery
	Bibliography Skinner, Inc., Boston, American Furniture and Decorative Arts, sale cat. (June 5, 2005), 29, lot 82. "Nadeau's Auction Gallery, Inc., advertisement," Antiques and the Arts Weekly (August 8, 2008): 127, ill.