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Side chairs, pair

Object number

RIF1397

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

Height: 38 in. (96.52 cm)

Date

1740–60

Current location

Unknown

Geography

Probably made in Massachusetts, formerly said to have been made in Newport, Rhode Island
(view a map of Rhode Island)

Medium

Walnut (primary)

Provenance

Mrs. F. W. Weider, California, 1954. Israel Sack, Inc., New York, 1983

Associated names

Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Weider
Israel Sack, Inc.

Bibliography

Helen Comstock, "American Furniture in California," Antiques 65, no. 1 (January 1954): 55, fig. 10.
American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, 10 vols. (Washington, D.C.: Highland House Publishers, 1957–1989), vol. 7, p. 2000, P5408, ill.
"Israel Sack, Inc., advertisement," Antiques 123, no. 2 (February 1983): 268, ill.