Photo: Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Gift of Edward C. Johnson III, Anonymous Gift, and Helen and Alice Colburn Fund, 1976, 1976.819
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Bow-back Windsor side chair, one of a set of eight |
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Object numberRIF2486 |
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MakerMaker UnknownMaker, possibly by Henry Bacon, 17211797 |
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Dimensions37 3/4 × 16 × 16 in. (95.885 × 40.64 × 40.64 cm) |
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Date17921810 |
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Current locationMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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GeographyMade in Rhode Island, Probably made in Providence, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumPine (seat), maple, and ash |
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MarksNone |
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Inscriptions"C. Corey," in chalk, on several seat bottoms; "BACON" stamped on underside of seats |
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ProvenanceSamuel Scott, Jr., Providence, Rhode Island; by descent in the Scott, Corey, and Richmond families, East Providence, Rhode Island. Gustav J. S. White, Inc. Auctioneers, Newport, Rhode Island, October 6, 1976; sold to John Walton, Griswold and Jewitt City, Connecticut; sold to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1976 |
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Associated namesCorey familyScott family Richmond family Samuel Scott, Jr., |
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NotesThe "BACON" stamped on this chair may be the mark of the Providence chairmaker Henry Bacon. The mark could also be for Henry's younger half-brother David, who was also a chairmaker in Providence. |
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See also |
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BibliographyJoan Pearson Watkins Revocable Trust, "A Decade of Collecting American Decorative Arts and Sculpture at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston," Antiques 120, no. 3 (September 1981): 597, fig. 9.Nancy Goyne Evans, American Windsor Chairs (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1996), 275, fig. 6-72. 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), 391n3. |