Photo: Courtesy Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Bequest of Chalres L. Pendleton, 04.088; photo by Erik Gould
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Roundabout chair |
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Object numberRIF1096 |
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MakerMaker Unknown |
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Dimensions44 × 30 × 25 in. (111.76 × 76.2 × 63.5 cm) |
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Date176090 |
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Current locationRhode Island School of Design Museum |
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GeographyProbably 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) |
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MediumMahogany (primary); maple, pine (secondary) |
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MarksUnknown |
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InscriptionsUnknown |
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ProvenanceW. Rice. Mr. ? Coleman, Portsmouth, New Hampshire; sold to Charles L. Pendleton (18461904), Providence, Rhode Island; bequeathed to Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, 1904 |
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Associated namesCharles L. Pendleton |
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NotesThis 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. |
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BibliographyDeanne Levison and Harold Sack, "American Roundabout Chairs," Antiques 139, no. 5 (May 1991): 940941, pl. VIII, ill.Eleanor H. Gustafson, "Collectors' Notes," Antiques 140, no. 1 (July 1991): 58. Christopher P. Monkhouse and Thomas S. Michie, American Furniture in Pendleton House (Providence: Rhode Island School of Design Museum, 1986), 164, no. 105, ill. Hedy B. Landman, "The Pendleton House at the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design," Antiques 107, no. 5 (May 1975): 927. Luke Vincent Lockwood, The Pendleton Collection (Providence: Rhode Island School of Design Museum, 1904), 303305, fig. pl. 74. American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, 10 vols. (Washington, D.C.: Highland House Publishers, 195789), vol. 10, p. 83, pl. 8. |