Photo: Courtesy Little Compton Historical Society, Rhode Island, 1996.0044; photo by Tracey Kroll
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Spindle-back armchair |
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Object numberRIF2291 |
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MakerMaker Unknown |
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Dimensions50 1/4 × 23 1/2 × 17 1/2 in. (127.635 × 59.69 × 44.45 cm) |
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Date16701710 |
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Current locationLittle Compton Historical Society |
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GeographyProbably made in Newport, Rhode Island, Possibly made in Little Compton, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumMaple |
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InscriptionsMarked on bottom rung: "GIFT BRAYTON LC ORIGIN" |
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ProvenanceBy descent in the Gray Family, Bessie Gray House, Little Compton, Rhode Island. Mrs. Israel Brayton; given to the Little Compton Historical Society, 1955 |
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Associated namesGray family at Bessie Gray House |
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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, 16501830, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2016), 30n20, 1415, 141, fig. 5. |