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From: Joseph K. Ott, The John Brown House Loan Exhibition of Rhode Island Furniture(Providence, R.I.: Rhode Island Historical Society, 1965), 23, cat. no. 21
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Roundabout chair

Object number

RIF1073

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

Height: 30 3/4 in. (78.105 cm) Width: 30 3/4 in. (78.105 cm)

Date

1760–80

Current location

Private collection

Geography

Made in Massachusetts, formerly said to have been made in Newport, Rhode Island
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Medium

Mahogany

Style

Chippendale

Provenance

Ginsburg and Levy, New York 1962. Cornelius C. Moore (1885–1970), Newport, Rhode Island; consigned by his estate to Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, October 30, 1971, lot 103; sold to Israel Sack, Inc., for a private collection

Associated names

Ginsburg and Levy, Inc.
Cornelius C. Moore
Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc.
Israel Sack, Inc.

Bibliography

"Ginsburg and Levy advertisement," Antiques 81, no. 4 (April 1962): 357, ill.
Joseph K. Ott, The John Brown House Loan Exhibition of Rhode Island Furniture, exh. cat. (Providence: The Rhode Island Historical Society, 1965), 22–23, no. 21, ill.
Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, Important American Furniture: Property from the Estate of the Late Cornelius C. Moore, sale cat. (October 30, 1971), 29, lot 103, ill.