Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Bequest of Chalres L. Pendleton, 04.088; photo by Erik Gould Click the image to enlarge	Roundabout chair
	Object number RIF1096
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions 44 � 30 � 25 in. (111.76 � 76.2 � 63.5 cm)
	Date 1760–90
	Current location Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design
	Geography Probably made in Massachusetts, formerly said to have been made in Rhode Island, formerly said to have been made in New York (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany (primary); maple, pine (secondary)
	Marks Unknown
	Inscriptions Unknown
	Style Queen Anne
	Provenance W. Rice. Mr. ? Coleman, Portsmouth, New Hampshire; sold to Charles L. Pendleton (1846–1904), Providence, Rhode Island; bequeathed to Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, 1904
	Associated names Charles L. Pendleton
	Notes This chair has been attributed to Rhode Island and New York, however, the shape of the arm supports, the lack of a peak on the arm rail behind the handholds as well blocking where the serpentine seat rails joins the arm supports conforms more to Massachusetts chairmaking traditions. See for instance, a chair at Winterthur with a Massachusetts history of ownership, RIF2695.
	Bibliography Luke Vincent Lockwood, The Pendleton Collection (Providence: Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 1904), 303–305, fig. pl. 74. American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, 10 vols. (Washington, D.C.: Highland House Publishers, 1957–1989), vol. 10, p. 83, pl. 8. Hedy B. Landman, "The Pendleton House at the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design," Antiques 107, no. 5 (May 1975): 927. Christopher P. Monkhouse and Thomas S. Michie, American Furniture in Pendleton House (Providence: Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 1986), 164, no. 105, ill. Deanne Levison and Harold Sack, "American Roundabout Chairs," Antiques 139, no. 5 (May 1991): 940–941, pl. VIII, ill. Eleanor H. Gustafson, "Collectors' Notes," Antiques 140, no. 1 (July 1991): 58.