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Side chair

Object number

RIF1712

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

Height: 38 1/2 in. (97.79 cm)

Date

1760–70

Current location

Unknown

Geography

Made in Newport, Rhode Island
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Medium

Mahogany

Provenance

Thomas Eaton, Eatonville; sold to Louis Richmond, Freehold, New Jersey; sold to Mrs. J. Amory Haskell (née Margaret Moore Riker, 1864–1942), New York, 1932. Sotheby's, New York, January 28–29, 31, 1987, lot 1266. Israel Sack, Inc., New York, 1989 and 2002; consigned to Sotheby's, New York, January 20, 2002, lot 1203

Associated names

Louis Richmond
Thomas Eaton
Mrs. J. Amory Haskell
Sotheby's
Israel Sack, Inc.
Sotheby's

See also

Bibliography

American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, 10 vols. (Washington, D.C.: Highland House Publishers, 1957–1989), vol. 9, p. 2462, P6072, ill.
Sotheby's, New York, Important Americana, sale cat. (January 28–29, 31, 1987), lot 1266.
Albert Sack, The New Fine Points of Furniture: Early American (New York: Crown Publishers, 1993), 37.
Sotheby's, New York, Property from the Collection of Gunston Hall Plantation, sale cat. (January 20, 2002), 25, lot 1203.