Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

From: Brock Jobe and Myrna Kaye, New England Furniture: The Colonial Era (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1984): 365 Click the image to enlarge	Easy chair
	Object number RIF834
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions 51 3/8 � 35 3/4 � 23 1/2 in. (130.493 � 90.805 � 59.69 cm) Seat height: 15 1/2 in. (39.37 cm)
	Date 1755–70
	Current location Historic New England (www.historicnewengland.com), formerly Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities
	Geography Probably made in Newport, Rhode Island, or possibly made in New London or Norwich, Connecticut, or possibly made in New York (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Black walnut (front legs and stretchers); maple (rear legs and seat rails); white pine (arm cones); birch (all other secondary)
	Style Queen Anne
	Provenance Hyman Kaufman (died 1947), Boston; consigned to American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, Inc., New York, April 12–14, 1934, lot 147; sold to Mary Thacher; by descent to Guido R. Perera (1902–1999), Boston; given to the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities (now Historic New England), Boston,1971
	Associated names Hyman Kaufman Mary Thacher Guido R. Perera Guido R. Perera
	Construction The rear legs and rear stiles are of one piece. The construction of the wings is like that of chair no. 101. The arm is screwed to the wing support. The chair is well worn, the frame chipped and riddled with tack holes. The medial stretchers has broken through the left stretcher mortise. The feet once had casters. The cone-shaped elements of the arm supports originally extended to the bottom of the seat rail. Source: Brock Jobe and Myrna Kaye,New England Furniture: The Colonial Era (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984), 368.
	Bibliography American Art Association and Anderson Galleries, New York, American Furniture: Property of Hyman Kaufman, Boston, Mass., Part I, sale cat. (April 12–14, 1934), 26, lot 147, ill. Brock Jobe and Myrna Kaye, New England Furniture: The Colonial Era (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984), 365–368, no. 102, ill.