Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library, Del. Click the image to enlarge	Archway from the Hall of the Banister-MacKaye House
	Object number RIF3355
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions Arch: 125 � 110 3/4 � 21 1/4 in. (317.5 � 281.31 � 53.98 cm)
	Date probably 1756
	Current location Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library
	Geography Made in Newport, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium White pine
	Style Chippendale
	Provenance Originally owned by John Banister (1707–1767), Boston, Newport, and Middletown, Rhode Island; by descent to his son John Banister (1745–1807), Newport and Middletown, Rhode Island; by forced sale to George Irish (1729–1801), Middletown, Rhode Island; by descent to his daughter Mrs. Easton Bailey (ne� Mary Irish), Middletown, Rhode Island; by descent to her son George Irish Bailey (1797–unknown), Middletown, Rhode Island; by descent to his son William Bailey (1823–1908), Middletown, Rhode Island; by descent to his daughter Mrs. Henry G. MacKaye (ne� Ellen Ida Bailey), Middletown, Rhode Island; by descent to her daughter Mrs. Roy Silas Atwood (ne� Mary MacKaye, 1892–1986), Middletown, Rhode Island; deeded to Winterthur Museum and Country Estate, Delaware, 1957
	Associated names John Banister
	Notes Banister-MacKaye House is now demolished.
	Bibliography John A. H. Sweeney, The Treasure House of Early American Rooms (New York: Viking Press, 1963), 50–51, ill. John A. H. Sweeney, Winterthur Illustrated (New York: Chanticleer Press, 1963), 50–51, 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), 196–197, 314, no. 26, fig. 1.