Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Sotheby's, New York Click the image to enlarge	Side chairs, ser of three
	Object number RIF2884
	Maker Maker, formerly attributed to Thomas Davenport, 1681–1745 Maker Unknown
	Dimensions 38 1/4 � 22 1/4 � 17 in. (97.16 � 56.52 � 43.18 cm)
	Date 1745–70
	Current location Private Collection
	Geography Made in Newport, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Walnut (primary); maple (slip seat frames on two of the three)
	Marks None (on two of the three)
	Inscriptions "VIII," incised, on slip seat, and "II," incised, on rabbet of front seat rail, on left chair in Sotheby's 1985 catalogue; "II," incised, on slip seat, and "III," incised, on rabbet of front seat rail, on right chair in the Sotheby's 1985 catalogue
	Provenance Scott Bartlett; consigned to Sotheby's, New York, February 2, 1985, lot 1013; sold to John Walton, Griswold and Jewett City, Connecticut; a pair (left and right in the 1985 Sotheby's catalogue) sold to a private collection
	Associated names Sotheby's Scott Bartlett John S. Walton, Inc.
	See also RIF655 RIF736 RIF832 RIF1864 RIF1865 RIF2013 RIF2333 RIF3086 RIF3087 RIF3358 RIF3556 RIF3730 RIF3822 RIF3989 RIF4884 RIF4885 RIF4887 RIF4954 RIF5635 RIF6653 RIF6654
	Bibliography Sotheby's, New York, Important American Furniture: The Collection of Scott Bartlett, sale cat. (February 2, 1985), lot 1013, ill.

Side chairs, ser of three