Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Winterthur Museum and Country Estate, Del., 1954.0074.007 Click the image to enlarge	Sack-back Windsor armchair
	Object number RIF1292
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions Height: 39 1/2 in. (100.33 cm) Seat: 18 1/8 � 21 1/4 � 15 1/2 in. (46.04 � 53.98 � 39.37 cm) Width, arms: 23 3/16 in. (58.896 cm)
	Date 1790–1800
	Current location Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library
	Geography Made in Rhode Island, Probably made in Providence, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium White pine (seat); soft maple (legs, stretchers, spindles, and arm supports); white oak (bow and arm rail) (microanalysis)
	Marks None
	Inscriptions "[W]hen Rev. David Tenney Kimball / began house keeping he brought two / Windsor chairs and the tall clock wh[ich] / had belonged to his father. / One chair was given to D. A. Kimball / [One chair was given to] E. K. Gray [?] / The clock was inherited by E. K. G. Y.[?] / under will of Mrs. Mary S. C. Peabody," written in ink, on paper label glued to underside of seat
	Style Windsor
	Provenance Reverand David Tenney Kimball (1782–1860), Ipswich, Massachusetts. Ernest B. LaGrange (1879–1970), Wilton, Connecticut, before 1937. Charles K. Davis (1889–1968), Fairfield, Connecticut; given to Winterthur Museum, Delaware, 1954
	Associated names Rev. David Tenney Kimball Ernest B. LaGrange Charles K. Davis
	Bibliography Nancy Goyne Evans, American Windsor Chairs (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1996), 261, fig. 6-40. Patricia E. Kane et al., Art and Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 1650–1830, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2016), 385–86, no. 85, fig. 1.