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Upholstered armchair

Object number

RIF3412

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

37 1/2 × 25 1/2 × 24 in. (95.25 × 64.77 × 60.96 cm)

Date

1730–50

Current location

Unknown

Geography

Possibly made in Newport, Rhode Island, or made in Boston, Massachusetts
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Medium

Mahogany (primary); maple (secondary)

Provenance

Bernard and S. Dean Levy, Inc., New York

Associated names

Bernard and S. Dean Levy, Inc.

Notes

Another chair of similar form attributed to Boston is in the collection of the Winterthur Museum (see Nancy Richards and Nancy Goyne Evans, New England Furniture at Winterthur, no. 92, p. 171–173).