Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Gift of Dr. Dorothy Gifford, 1987.069.1 Click the image to enlarge	Banister-back side chair
	Object number RIF3361
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions 42 3/4 � 20 � 14 in. (108.585 � 50.8 � 35.56 cm)
	Date 1720–80
	Current location Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design
	Geography Made in Rhode Island, Possibly made in Little Compton, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Maple and ash
	Marks Unknown
	Inscriptions Unknown
	Style William and Mary, Vernacular
	Provenance Dr. Dorothy Gifford, Providence, Rhode Island; gift to Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, 1987
	Associated names Dr. Dorothy Gifford
	See also RIF775 RIF1687 RIF2647 RIF2849 RIF4280 RIF4281 RIF4282 RIF4283 RIF4284 RIF4285 RIF4288 RIF4289 RIF4738 RIF4739 RIF4740 RIF4746
	Bibliography 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), 185n3.

Banister-back side chair