Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Gift in memory of Mercy Congdon Brown by her four granddaughters, 22.226; photo by Erik Gould Click the image to enlarge	Spindle-back side chair
	Object number RIF3339
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions 39 1/2 � 21 � 14 in. (100.33 � 53.34 � 35.56 cm) Height, seat: 18 in. (45.72 cm)
	Date 1680–1700
	Current location Rhode Island School of Design Museum
	Geography Possibly made in Kingstown, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Maple (rear posts, front legs, and spindles); red oak (side seat rails); ash (horizontal back rails, front and back seat rails, and stretchers)
	Marks None
	Inscriptions None
	Provenance Congdon or Brown family, South Kingstown, Rhode Island; by descent to Mrs. John Knowles Brown (nee Mercy Congdon, 1820–1895), South Kingstown; by descent to her husband and cousin John Knowles Brown (died 1898), South Kingstown; by descent to his four granddaughters Mrs. Howard Donahue, Mrs. Charles H. Chappell, Mrs. John R. Carpenter, and Miss Adelaide Knowles; given to Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 1922
	Associated names Mercy Congdon Brown John Knowles Brown Mrs. Howard Donahue Mrs. Charles H Chappell Miss Adelaide Knowles Mrs. John R Carpenter
	Bibliography Christopher P. Monkhouse and Thomas S. Michie, American Furniture in Pendleton House (Providence: Rhode Island School of Design Museum, 1986), 144–145, no. 83, ill. Robert F. Trent, "New Insights on Early Rhode Island Furniture," American Furniture (1999): 216, fig. 12. 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), 144n5.