Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

From: Jonathan L. Fairbanks, "American Antiques in the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Bybee," Antiques 92 (December 1967): 834 Click the image to enlarge	Joint stool
	Object number RIF2464
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions 23 � 26 � 14 1/4 in. (58.42 � 66.04 � 36.195 cm)
	Date 1690–1710
	Current location Unknown
	Geography Made in Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Soft maple
	Provenance Henry A. Hoffman (born 1873), Barrington, Rhode Island and Litchfield, Connecticut. Faith P. Bybee (1900–1996) and Charles L. Bybee (1900–1972), Houston, Texas, by 1967; destroyed in a fire at the Bybee home, 1972
	Associated names Henry A. Hoffman Charles L. Bybee Faith P. Bybee
	See also RIF4142
	Bibliography Wallace Nutting, Furniture Treasury, 1st ed., 3 vols. (Framingham, Mass.: Old American Company Publishers, 1928–33), vol. 2, no. 2723. Wallace Nutting, Furniture Treasury (New York: MacMillan Company, 1963), no. 2723, ill. Joan Pearson Watkins Revocable Trust, "American Antiques in the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Bybee, Part I," Antiques 92, no. 6 (December 1967): 834, ill. 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), 181n1.

Joint stool