Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy The Chipstone Foundation, Fox Point, Wis., accession no. 1955.14; photo by Gavin Ashworth Click the image to enlarge	Easy chair
	Object number RIF770
	Maker Maker, formerly attributed to John Goddard, American, 1723–1785 Maker Unknown
	Dimensions 49 � 29 � 18 1/2 in. (124.46 � 73.66 � 46.99 cm)
	Date ca. 1955
	Current location The Chipstone Foundation
	Geography Made in Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany, maple, and white pine
	Marks Unknown
	Inscriptions Unknown
	Provenance John S. Walton, New York; sold to Polly Mariner Stone (1898–1995) and Stanley Stone (1896–1987), Fox Point, Wisconsin, 1955; bequeathed by Stanley Stone to The Chipstone Foundation, Fox Point, Wisconsin, 1987
	Associated names Stanley Stone Polly Mariner Stone John S. Walton, Inc.
	Construction The 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.
	Notes Although once published as an eighteenth-century Rhode Island easy chair, this chair has been determined to be twentieth century.
	Bibliography Stanley 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), 204–205, 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): 60–63, fig. 11, 13–14, 16.