Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Sotheby's, New York Click the image to enlarge	Upholstered armchair
	Object number RIF3247
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions Height: 43 7/8 in. (111.443 cm) Width: 26 1/2 in. (67.31 cm) Depth: 22 1/4 in. (56.515 cm) Height of seat rail: 17 in. (43.18 cm)
	Date 1755–75
	Current location Unknown
	Geography Made in Providence, Rhode Island, or made in Newport, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany (primary); maple (seat rails, stiles above the rear legs, crest rail, and lower back rail)
	Style Chippendale
	Provenance David Stockwell, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; sold in 1955 to Pamela Cunningham Copeland (1906–2001) and Lammont du Pont Copeland (1905–1983), Greenville, Delaware; consigned by her estate to Sotheby's, New York, January 19, 2002, lot 351
	Associated names David Stockwell, Inc. Lammot du Pont Copeland Pamela Cunningham Copeland Sotheby's
	See also RIF378 RIF3413 RIF4417 RIF5155
	Bibliography James Biddle, American Art from American Collections: Decorative Arts, Paintings, and Prints of the Colonial and Federal Periods from Private Collections, exh. cat. (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1963), 18, no. 35, ill. Sotheby's, New York, The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Lammot du Pont Copeland, sale cat. (January 19, 2002), 213–14, lot 351, ill.

Upholstered armchair