Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy of the Dallas Museum of Art, The Faith P. and Charles L. Bybee Collection, gift of Cecil and Ida Green, 1985.B.26 Click the image to enlarge	Easy chair
	Object number RIF911
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions 48 1/4 � 34 1/8 � 31 in. (122.555 � 86.678 � 78.74 cm) Seat height: 14 1/4 in. (36.195 cm)
	Date 1750–70
	Current location Dallas Museum of Art
	Geography Probably made in Massachusetts, formerly said to have been made in Boston or Newport, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany (primary); soft maple (rear legs, rear stretcher, and seat frame); cherry (side stretchers)
	Style Chippendale
	Provenance John S. Walton, Inc., New York; sold to Faith P. Bybee (1900–1996) and Charles L. Bybee (1900–1972), Houston, 1960; sold by Faith P. Bybee to the Dallas Museum of Art, 1985
	Associated names John S. Walton, Inc. Charles L. Bybee Faith P. Bybee
	Construction The structure under the upholstery was not examined. The front and side seat rails are lap-joined together. The side stretchers join the legs with rectangular tenons. The knee brackets are nailed and glued to the seat frame. The lower section has been refinished, and the chair once had casters. Source: Charles L. Venable, American Furniture in the Bybee Collection (Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 1989), 32, no. 13.
	Bibliography Joan Pearson Watkins Revocable Trust, "American Antiques in the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Bybee, Part II," Antiques 93, no. 1 (January 1968): 78. Charles L. Venable, American Furniture in the Bybee Collection (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1989), 31–32, no. 13, ill.