Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Sotheby's, New York Click the image to enlarge	Easy chair
	Object number RIF3124
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions Height: 48 in. (121.92 cm) Height of seat: 18 in. (45.72 cm)
	Date 1750–70
	Current location Unknown
	Geography Probably made in Newport, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Maple and walnut
	Provenance Andrew D. Wolfe (1922–1999), Pittsford, New York; consigned by his estate to Sotheby's, New York, January 20, 2001, lot 72
	Associated names Andrew D. Wolfe Sotheby's
	Notes The unchamfered rear legs, thickness of the medial stretcher, and stockiness of the cabriole legs suggest a Rhode Island origin.
	Bibliography Sotheby's, New York, Important American Furniture and Folk Art from the Estate of Andrew D. Wolfe, sale cat. (January 20, 2001), 34, lot 72, ill. Patricia E. Kane et al., Art and Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 1650–1830, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2016), 351n5.

Easy chair