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Bow-back Windsor side chairs, set of five |
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Object numberRIF895 |
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MakerMaker Unknown |
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Date17801800 |
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Current locationUnknown |
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GeographyMade in Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumMaple and pine |
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MarksUnknown |
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InscriptionsUnknown |
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ProvenanceBy descent in the Sheldon family, Cranston, Rhode Island. John Walton, Inc., Griswold and Jewett City, Connecticut; sold to Daphne Farago (born 1924), Key Biscayne, Florida, and Little Compton, Rhode Island; consigned to Sotheby's, New York, February 2, 1991, lot 1304. David A. Schorsch, New York, 1992 |
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Associated namesDaphne FaragoSheldon family Sotheby's John S. Walton, Inc. |
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Bibliography"David A. Schorsch, Inc., advertisement," Antiques 142, no. 3 (September 1992): 314, ill.Sotheby's, New York, American Folk Art and Furniture: Formerly in the Collection of Daphne Farago, sold for the Benefit of the Rhode Island School of Design, sale cat. (February 2, 1991), lot 1304, ill. Carol C. Sanderson and Christopher P. Monkhouse, Americana from the Daphne Farago Collection, exh. cat. (Providence: Rhode Island School of Design Museum, 1985), 45, no. 26. |