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
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Side chairs, pair |
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Object numberRIF2012 |
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MakerMaker Unknown |
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Dimensions41 3/4 × 20 1/2 × 20 in. (106.045 × 52.07 × 50.8 cm) |
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Date174060 |
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Current locationUnknown |
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GeographyProbably made in Massachusetts, or made in Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumWalnut |
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ProvenanceWilliam Ellery (1727-1820), Newport, Rhode Island; by descent to his daughter, Mrs. William Stedman (née 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 |
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Associated namesWilliam ElleryWilliam Stedman Francis Dana Stedman W. R. Stedman Francis H. Bigelow Anderson Galleries |
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BibliographyAnderson 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, 16501830, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2016), 5n14. |