Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Winterthur Museum and Country Estate, Del., 1958.2598 Click the image to enlarge	Backstool
	Object number RIF2699
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions 35 1/2 � 20 � 17 in. (90.17 � 50.8 � 43.18 cm)
	Date 1740–70
	Current location Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library
	Geography 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 (rear legs)
	Provenance By tradition descended in the family of President Franklin Pierce. Mrs. Francis M. Nichols, Glebe House, Inc., Marblehead, Massachusetts; sold to Henry Francis du Pont (1880–1969), Winterthur, Delaware, 1934; bequeathed to Winterthur Museum, 1969
	Associated names Henry Francis du Pont Franklin Pierce Frances M. Nichols
	Bibliography Joseph Downs, American Furniture: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods in the Henry Francis DuPont Winterthur Museum (New York: MacMillan Company, 1952), no. 98, ill. Nancy E. Richards and Nancy Goyne Evans, New England Furniture at Winterthur: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods (Winterthur, Del.: Winterthur Publications, 1997), 165–166, no. 89, ill.

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