Photo: Courtesy The Chipstone Foundation, Fox Point, Wis., accession no. 1955.14; photo by Gavin Ashworth
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Easy chair |
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Object numberRIF770 |
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MakerMaker, formerly attributed to John Goddard, American, 17231785Maker Unknown |
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Dimensions49 × 29 × 18 1/2 in. (124.46 × 73.66 × 46.99 cm) |
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Dateca. 1955 |
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Current locationThe Chipstone Foundation |
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GeographyMade in Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumMahogany, maple, and white pine |
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MarksUnknown |
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InscriptionsUnknown |
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ProvenanceJohn S. Walton, New York; sold to Polly Mariner Stone (18981995) and Stanley Stone (18961987), Fox Point, Wisconsin, 1955; bequeathed by Stanley Stone to The Chipstone Foundation, Fox Point, Wisconsin, 1987 |
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Associated namesStanley StonePolly Mariner Stone John S. Walton, Inc. |
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ConstructionThe crest rail wraps around the top and the inner sides of the stiles; the front and side seat rails overlap the front legs and are penetrated by a dowel extending from the legs; the rear legs are of mahogany and are spliced with the back stiles just above the level of the seat rails. Source: Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque, American Furniture at Chipstone, (Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984), 204. |
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NotesAlthough once published as an eighteenth-century Rhode Island easy chair, this chair has been determined to be twentieth century. |
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BibliographyStanley Stone, "Rhode Island Furniture at Chipstone, Part I," Antiques 91, no. 2 (February 1967): 209.Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque, American Furniture at Chipstone (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984), 204205, no. 94, ill. James Biddle, American Art from American Collections: Decorative Arts, Paintings, and Prints of the Colonial and Federal Periods from Private Collections, exh. cat. (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1963), 20, no. 39, ill. Luke Beckerdite and Alan Miller, "Furniture Fakes from the Chipstone Collection," American Furniture (2002): 6063, fig. 11, 1314, 16. |