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Backstool

Object number

RIF2939

Maker

Maker Unknown

Date

1780–1800

Current location

Unknown

Geography

Made in Rhode Island
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Medium

Mahogany (primary); cherry (rear legs

Style

Chippendale

Provenance

Edgar William Garbisch (1899–1979) and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch (1907–1979), Cambridge, Maryland; consigned by their estate to Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York (sale held Cambridge, Maryland), May 23–25, 1980, lot 1141

Associated names

Bernice Chrysler Garbisch
Edgar William Garbisch
Sotheby Parke Bernet

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 1141, ill.