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Side chair

Object number

RIF2862

Maker

Maker Unknown

Date

1740–60

Current location

Unknown

Geography

Probably made in Massachusetts, formerly said to have been made in Newport, Rhode Island
(view a map of Rhode Island)

Medium

Walnut

Style

Queen Anne

Provenance

Wirt P. Marks, Jr.; consigned to Sotheby's, New York, October 14, 1989, lot 342

Associated names

Wirt P. Marks Jr.
Sotheby's

Bibliography

Sotheby's, New York, Important American Furniture and Folk Art: Including Hudson River Paintings from the Collection of Maitland Lee Griggs, sale cat. (October 14, 1989), lot 342, ill.