Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy of Gary R. Sullivan Antiques, Inc., Sharon, Mass. Click the image to enlarge	Backstool
	Object number RIF1075
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Date 1740–60
	Current location Gary R. Sullivan Antiques, Inc.
	Geography Probably made in Massachusetts, formerly said to have been made in Rhode island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany (primary); maple (secondary)
	Marks None
	Inscriptions "VI," incised, on front seat rail rabbet
	Style Queen Anne
	Provenance By descent in the Maynard and Hazard families, Rhode Island; sold to Harry Arons; sold to David Stockwell (1907–1996), Wilmington, Delaware, by 1981. Gary R. Sullivan Antiques, Inc., Sharon, Massachusetts, 2018
	Associated names Maynard family Hazard Family Harry Arons David Stockwell
	Related objects RIF907 RIF1836 RIF4720
	Bibliography David Stockwell, Inc., "Living with Antiques: Log Folly in Delaware," Antiques 119, no. 5 (May 1981): 1103, ill.

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