Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Christie's, New York Click the image to enlarge	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 (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany (primary); maple (secondary)
	Style Chippendale
	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 Ott, Providence, Rhode Island; consigned to Christie's, New York, January 20, 2012, lot 146
	Associated names Judge George C. Bryant Mrs. George C. Bryant Israel Sack, Inc. Joseph K. Ott Anne Northrop Ott Christie's
	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.

Easy chair