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Side chair

Object number

RIF3480

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

41 1/8 × 20 1/2 × 20 1/2 in. (104.458 × 52.07 × 52.07 cm)

Date

1740–1760

Current location

Unknown

Geography

Made in Boston, Massachusetts, formerly said to have been made in Rhode Island
(view a map of Rhode Island)

Medium

Walnut

Marks

Chair frame marked: "III"; old slip seat frame marked "VI".

Provenance

Sotheby's, New York, October 22, 1995, lot 126. George and Lesley Schoedinger, Saint Louis; consigned to Christie's, New York, January 18, 2008, lot 5953

Associated names

Sotheby's
Leigh Keno American Antiques
Sotheby's

Bibliography

Sotheby's, New York, Important Americana, sale cat. (October 22, 1995), lot 128.
Nancy E. Richards and Nancy Goyne Evans, New England Furniture at Winterthur: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods (Winterthur, Del.: Winterthur Publications, 1997), 29, fn. 2,3, ill.
David H. Conradsen, Useful Beauty: Early American Decorative Arts from St. Louis Collections, exh. cat. (Saint Louis: Saint Louis Art Museum, 1999), 18, fig. 2.
Christie's, New York, Property from the Collection of George and Lesley Schoedinger, sale cat. (January 18, 2008), 34–35, lot 4953, ill.