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Fan-back Windsor side chair

Object number

RIF2664

Maker

Maker Unknown

Date

1790–1800

Current location

Unknown

Geography

Made in Rhode Island
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Medium

Maple, pine, ash

Provenance

The Chimney Room, Swansea, Massachusetts; sold to Daphne Farago (born 1924), Key Biscayne, Florida, and Little Compton, Rhode Island; consigned to Sotheby's, New York, February 2, 1991, lot 1299

Associated names

Daphne Farago
Sotheby's
"Chimney Room" Antique Shop

Bibliography

Sotheby's, New York, American Folk Art and Furniture: Formerly in the Collection of Daphne Farago, sold for the Benefit of the Rhode Island School of Design, sale cat. (February 2, 1991), lot 1299, ill.
Carol C. Sanderson and Christopher P. Monkhouse, Americana from the Daphne Farago Collection, exh. cat. (Providence: Rhode Island School of Design Museum, 1985), 43, no. 24.