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Fan-back Windsor side chairs, pair

Object number

RIF1886

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

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

Date

1790–1800

Current location

Unknown

Geography

Made in Rhode Island, or possibly made in Connecticut
(view a map of Rhode Island)

Medium

Maple

Inscriptions

The underside of each chair has an illegible chalk inscription.

Style

Windsor, Windsor

Provenance

Dr. and Mrs. Robert Mallory III; consigned by their esate to Greenwich Fine Arts Auction Associates, Connecticut, June, 2001; sold to Susan and Raymond Egan, Princeton, New Jersey, and Boothbay Harbor, Maine; consigned to Northeast Auctions, Hampton and Portsmouth, New Hampshire (sale held Manchester, New Hampshire), August 5, 2006, lot 726

Associated names

Dr. Robert Mallory III
Phyllis Mallory
Greenwich Fine Arts Auction Associates
Raymond Egan
Susan Egan
Northeast Auctions

Bibliography

Northeast Auctions, Portsmouth, N.H., The Folk Art Collection of Susan and Raymond Egan, sale cat. (August 5, 2006), 51, lot 726, ill.