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Easy chair

Object number

RIF3024

Maker

Maker Unknown

Date

1730–50

Current location

Unknown

Geography

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

Medium

Walnut

Provenance

Ginsburg and Levy, Inc., New York. Dr. and Mrs. Samuel J. Phillips, New York; consigned by their estates to Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, September 26, 1981, lot 436

Associated names

Ginsburg and Levy, Inc.
Sotheby Parke Bernet
Mrs. Samuel J. Phillips
Dr. Samuel J. Phillips

Bibliography

Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, Fine Americana, sale cat. (September 26, 1981), lot 436, ill.