Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Yale University Art Gallery, Mabel Brady Garvan Collection, 1930.2712 Click the image to enlarge	Side chair
	Object number RIF1723
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions 39 1/4 � 20 3/4 � 17 7/8 in. (99.695 � 52.705 � 45.403 cm) Seat Height: 17 1/4 in. (43.815 cm) Seat rails: 15 1/4 in. (38.735 cm)
	Date 1740–60
	Current location Yale University Art Gallery
	Geography Probably made in Massachusetts, formerly said to have been made in Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium American black walnut (primary); white pine (front cornerblocks); birch (sides and rear of slip seat frame); maple (front of slip seat frame)
	Provenance Charles R. Morson (died 1929) New York. Francis P. Garvan (1875–1937), New York; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, 1930
	Associated names Charles R. Morson Francis P. Garvan
	See also RIF3022
	Bibliography John T. Kirk, American Chairs: Queen Anne and Chippendale (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972), 133, fig. 169. Patricia E. Kane, 300 Years of American Seating Furniture Chairs and Beds from the Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University (Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1976), 77–78, no. 56, ill.

Side chair