Photo: Courtesy the Rhode Island Historical Society, 1971.31.1 (RHiX32123)
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Object numberRIF916 |
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MakerMaker Unknown |
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Dimensions39 1/2 × 98 1/4 × 30 1/4 in. (100.33 × 249.556 × 76.835 cm) |
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Date17801800 |
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Current locationThe Rhode Island Historical Society |
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GeographyMade in Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumMahogany (primary); oak (secondary) |
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ProvenanceJohn Brown (17361803) and Sarah Smith Brown (17381825), Providence, Rhode Island; by descent to Norman Herreshoff (19031990), Providence; given to the Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence, 1971 |
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Associated namesSarah Smith BrownNorman Herreshoff John Brown |
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See also |
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BibliographyMichael Moses, Master Craftsmen of Newport: The Townsends and Goddards (Tenafly, N.J.: MMI Americana Press, 1984), 53, fig. 1.41.Ruth Davidson, "Museum Accessions," Antiques 103, no. 6 (June 1973): 1078, ill. Joseph K. Ott, The John Brown House Loan Exhibition of Rhode Island Furniture, exh. cat. (Providence: The Rhode Island Historical Society, 1965), 3031, no. 28, ill. Joseph K. Ott, "The John Brown House Loan Exhibition of Rhode Island Furniture," Antiques 87, no. 5 (May 1965): 564565, fig. 5. John T. Kirk, American Furniture and the British Tradition to 1830 (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982), 300, fig. 1183. Robert Bishop, Centuries and Styles of the American Chair, 16401970 (New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1972), 171, fig. 223. "Rhode Island History," Rhode Island History 27, no. 4 (1968): cover ill., ill. |