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Side chair

Object number

RIF2911

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

Provenance

Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, December 8, 1984, lot 371

Associated names

Sotheby's

Construction

The splat has been reversed.

See also

Bibliography

Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, Important American Furniture and Folk Art, sale cat. (December 8, 1984), lot 371, ill.