Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Winterthur Museum and Country Estate, Del., 1958.2219 Click the image to enlarge	Side chair
	Object number RIF2700
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions 37 � 20 � 17 in. (93.98 � 50.8 � 43.18 cm)
	Date 1740–60
	Current location Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library
	Geography Probably made in Massachusetts, formerly said to have been made in Newport, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Walnut (primary)
	Provenance Henry Francis du Pont (1880–1969), Winterthur, Delaware; bequeathed to Winterthur Museum, 1969
	Associated names Henry Francis du Pont
	Bibliography Joseph Downs, American Furniture: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods in the Henry Francis DuPont Winterthur Museum (New York: MacMillan Company, 1952), no. 101, ill. Nancy E. Richards and Nancy Goyne Evans, New England Furniture at Winterthur: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods (Winterthur, Del.: Winterthur Publications, 1997), 42–43, no. 23, ill. 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), 5n13.

Side chair