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
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Spindle-back side chair |
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Object numberRIF3339 |
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MakerMaker Unknown |
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Dimensions39 1/2 × 21 × 14 in. (100.33 × 53.34 × 35.56 cm) Height, seat: 18 in. (45.72 cm) |
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Date16801700 |
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Current locationRhode Island School of Design Museum |
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GeographyPossibly made in Kingstown, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumMaple (rear posts, front legs, and spindles); red oak (side seat rails); ash (horizontal back rails, front and back seat rails, and stretchers) |
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MarksNone |
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InscriptionsNone |
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ProvenanceCongdon or Brown family, South Kingstown, Rhode Island; by descent to Mrs. John Knowles Brown (nee Mercy Congdon, 18201895), 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 |
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Associated namesMercy Congdon BrownJohn Knowles Brown Mrs. Howard Donahue Mrs. Charles H Chappell Miss Adelaide Knowles Mrs. John R Carpenter |
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BibliographyChristopher P. Monkhouse and Thomas S. Michie, American Furniture in Pendleton House (Providence: Rhode Island School of Design Museum, 1986), 144145, 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, 16501830, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2016), 144n5. |