Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Gift of Edward C. Johnson III, Anonymous Gift, and Helen and Alice Colburn Fund, 1976, 1976.819 Click the image to enlarge	Bow-back Windsor side chair, one of a set of eight
	Object number RIF2486
	Maker Maker Unknown Maker, possibly by Henry Bacon, 1721?1797
	Dimensions 37 3/4 � 16 � 16 in. (95.885 � 40.64 � 40.64 cm)
	Date 1792–1810
	Current location Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
	Geography Made in Rhode Island, Probably made in Providence, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Pine (seat), maple, and ash
	Marks None
	Inscriptions "C. Corey," in chalk, on several seat bottoms; "BACON" stamped on underside of seats
	Style Windsor
	Provenance Samuel 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
	Associated names Samuel Scott, Jr., Scott family Corey family Richmond family
	Notes The "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.
	Related objects RIF2144
	See also RIF177 RIF6521
	Bibliography Joan 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, 1650–1830, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2016), 391n3.