Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Sotheby's, New York Click the image to enlarge	Slipper chair
	Object number RIF2935
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Date 1740–60
	Current location Unknown
	Geography Probably made in Massachusetts, formerly said to have been made in Massachusetts or Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany
	Style Queen Anne
	Provenance Bernice Chrysler Garbisch (1907–1979) and Edgar William Garbisch (1899–1979), Cambridge, Maryland; consigned by their estate to Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, May 23–25, 1980, lot 1075. John Walton, Inc., Griswold and Jewett City, Connecticut
	Associated names Bernice Chrysler Garbisch Edgar William Garbisch Sotheby Parke Bernet John S. Walton, Inc.
	Bibliography Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, The Garbisch Collection, Volume Four: Important American Furniture and Related Decorative Arts, sale cat. (May 23–25, 1980), lot 1075, ill. "John Walton, Inc., advertisement," Antiques 119, no.1 (January, 1981): 4.

Slipper chair