Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Sotheby's, New York Click the image to enlarge	Bow-back Windsor side chairs, set of five
	Object number RIF895
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Date 1780–1800
	Current location Unknown
	Geography Made in Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Maple and pine
	Marks Unknown
	Inscriptions Unknown
	Style Windsor
	Provenance By 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
	Associated names Sheldon family Daphne Farago David A. Schorsch, Inc. Sotheby's John Walton, Inc.
	Bibliography Carol C. Sanderson and Christopher P. Monkhouse, Americana from the Daphne Farago Collection, exh. cat. (Providence: Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 1985), 45, no. 26. 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. "David A. Schorsch, Inc., advertisement," Antiques 142, no. 3 (September 1992): 314, ill.

Bow-back Windsor side chairs, set of five