Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Doyle, New York Click the image to enlarge	Side chairs, pair
	Object number RIF2693
	Maker Maker Unknown Maker, formerly attributed to John Carlile and Sons, active 1789?1803
	Dimensions 40 � 21 1/4 � 17 1/2 in. (101.6 � 53.98 � 44.45 cm) Height, seat: 18 in. (45.72 cm)
	Date 1790–1810
	Current location Unknown
	Geography Made in Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany (primary); secondary (pine and maple)
	Style Hepplewhite, Federal
	Provenance Mr. and Mrs. Walter B. Robb, Buffalo, by 1968. Israel Sack, Inc., New York; sold to Mr. and Mrs. George Fenimore Johnson, Chestertown, Maryland; consigned by their estate to Sotheby's, New York, January 19, 2008, lot 46. Private collection, New Jersey; consigned to Doyle, New York, April 6, 2016, lot 184; sold to Bernard and S. Dean Levy, Inc., New York
	Associated names Mr. and Mrs. Walter B. Robb Israel Sack, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. George Fenimore Johnson Sotheby's Private collection Doyle New York Bernard and S. Dean Levy, Inc.
	Notes In the Sotheby's catalogue for January 19, 2008, the provenance for these chairs, lot 46, is listed with lot 47.
	See also RIF1518 RIF1588 RIF1662 RIF1726 RIF2317 RIF2619 RIF3178 RIF3185 RIF3232 RIF3535 RIF3837 RIF3914 RIF3934 RIF4444 RIF4605 RIF4656 RIF4926
	Bibliography American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, 10 vols. (Washington, D.C.: Highland House Publishers, 1957–1989), vol. 5, p. 1226, no. 4157, ill. Edith Gaines, "The Robb Collection of American Furniture, Part II," Antiques 93, no. 4 (April 1968): 488, fig. 10. Albert Sack, The New Fine Points of Furniture: Early American (New York: Crown Publishers, 1993), 57, ill. Sotheby's, New York, Property from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. George Fenimore Johnson, sale cat. (January 19, 2008), 60, lot 46, ill. Doyle New York, New York, American Paintings, Furniture and Decorative Arts, sale cat. (April 6, 2016), 60, lot 184, ill. Julie Schlenger Adell, "American Paintings, Furniture, and Decorative Arts," Maine Antique Digest (June 2016): 36-E, ill.