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Spindle-back armchair

Object number

RIF2291

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

50 1/4 × 23 1/2 × 17 1/2 in. (127.635 × 59.69 × 44.45 cm)

Date

1670–1710

Current location

Little Compton Historical Society

Geography

Probably made in Newport, Rhode Island, Possibly made in Little Compton, Rhode Island
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Medium

Maple

Inscriptions

Marked on bottom rung: "GIFT BRAYTON LC ORIGIN"

Style

William and Mary

Provenance

By descent in the Gray Family, Bessie Gray House, Little Compton, Rhode Island. Mrs. Israel Brayton; given to the Little Compton Historical Society, 1955

Associated names

Gray family at Bessie Gray House

See also

Bibliography

"Chair, Dining," http://littlecompton.pastperfect-online.com/35259cgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=ACE9A886-7360-411A-BC54-904663065218;type=101 (accessed March 2, 2010).
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), 30n20, 14–15, 141, fig. 5.