Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo from: The Anderson Galleries. Colonial Furniture: The Superb Collection of Mr. Francis Hill Bigelow of Cambridge, Mass., Part One, New York, New York, January 17, 1924, p. 92, lot 142 Click the image to enlarge	Side chairs, pair
	Object number RIF2012
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions 41 3/4 � 20 1/2 � 20 in. (106.045 � 52.07 � 50.8 cm)
	Date 1740–60
	Current location Unknown
	Geography Probably made in Massachusetts, or possibly made in Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Walnut
	Style Queen Anne
	Provenance William Ellery (1727-1820), Newport, Rhode Island; by descent to his daughter, Mrs. William Stedman (n�e Almy Ellery, 1759-1839), Newburyport, Massachusetts; by descent to her son, Francis Dana Stedman (1801-1880), Boston, Massachusetts; by descent to his adopted son Walter R. Stedman (born 1851), Boston; sold to Francis Hill Bigelow (1859-1933), Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1909; consigned to The Anderson Galleries, New York, January 17, 1924, lot 142
	Associated names William Ellery William Stedman Francis Dana Stedman W. R. Stedman Francis H. Bigelow Anderson Galleries
	Bibliography Anderson Galleries, New York, Colonial Furniture: The Superb Collection of Mr. Francis Hill Bigelow of Cambridge, Mass., Part One, sale cat. (January 17, 1924), 92, lot 142. Joan Barzilay Freund and Leigh Keno, "The Making and Marketing of Boston Seating Furniture in the Late Baroque Style," American Furniture (1998): fig. 41. 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), 5n14.