Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Winterthur Museum and Country Estate, Del., 1951.0021B Click the image to enlarge	Easy chair
	Object number RIF2696
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions 44 � 31 � 22 in. (111.76 � 78.74 � 55.88 cm)
	Date 1750–75
	Current location Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library
	Geography Probably made in Massachusetts, formerly said to have been made in Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium American black walnut (primary); soft maple (seat frame)
	Style Chippendale
	Provenance Mrs. J. Armory Haskell (n�e Margaret Moore Riker, 1864–1942), New York; consigned by her estate to Parke Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, May 17–20, 1944, lot 746. John S. Walton, New York; sold by themto Henry Francis du Pont (188–1969), Winterthur, Delaware, 1951; given to Winterthur Museum, 1951
	Associated names Mrs. J. Amory Haskell Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. Henry Francis du Pont John S. Walton
	Bibliography Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, The Americana Collection of the Late Mrs. J. Amory Haskell, Part Two, sale cat. (May 17–20, 1944), lot 746. Joseph Downs, American Furniture: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods in the Henry Francis DuPont Winterthur Museum (New York: MacMillan Company, 1952), no. 79, ill. Joan Barzilay Freund, Alan Miller, and Leigh Keno, "The Very Pink of the Mode: Boston Georgian Chairs, Their Export, Their Influence," American Furniture (1996): 278, fig. 15. Nancy E. Richards and Nancy Goyne Evans, New England Furniture at Winterthur: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods (Winterthur, Del.: Winterthur Publications, 1997), 151–152, no. 82. Joan Barzilay Freund and Leigh Keno, "The Making and Marketing of Boston Seating Furniture in the Late Baroque Style," American Furniture (1998): 21, 23, fig. 38.