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Easy chair

Object number

RIF771

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

47 × 37 7/8 in. (119.38 × 96.203 cm) Height, seat rail: 13 1/2 in. (34.29 cm)

Date

1750–70

Current location

Unknown

Geography

Probably made in Massachusetts, formerly said to have been made in Rhode Island
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Medium

Mahogany (primary); maple (secondary)

Provenance

George C. Bryant (born 1873) and Florence Adele Farrel Bryant (1877–1949), Ansonia, Connecticut; by descent to their son; sold to Israel Sack, Inc., New York; sold to Joseph K. Ott (1929–1994), Providence, Rhode Island, 1959; by descent to his wife Anne Northrup Ott (1929–2015), Providence, Rhode Island; consigned to Christie's, New York, January 20, 2012, lot 146

Associated names

Joseph K. Ott
Judge George C. Bryant
Mrs. George C. Bryant
Christie's
Anne Northrop Ott
Israel Sack, Inc.

Bibliography

Joseph K. Ott, The John Brown House Loan Exhibition of Rhode Island Furniture, exh. cat. (Providence: The Rhode Island Historical Society, 1965), 26–27, no. 24, Detail on p.163, fig.24, ill.
Joseph K. Ott, "Some Rhode Island Furniture," Antiques 107, no. 5 (May 1975): 944, fig. 6.
Christie's, New York, The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph K. Ott, sale cat. (January 20, 2012), 48–49, lot 146.