Photo: Courtesy Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Gift of Mrs. Gustav Radeke, 20.965; photo by Erik Gould
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Sack-back Windsor highchair |
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Object numberRIF3486 |
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MakerMaker Unknown |
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Dimensions34 × 19 × 16 in. (86.36 × 48.26 × 40.64 cm) Height, seat: 20 in. (50.8 cm) |
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Date17701800 |
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Current locationRhode Island School of Design Museum |
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GeographyMade in Rhode Island, or made in Connecticut(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumSoft maple, chestnut, oak, ash, hickory |
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ProvenanceArthur Leslie Green, Newport, Rhode Island; sold to Mrs. Gustav Radeke (née Eliza Greene Metcalf, 18541931), Providence, Rhode Island, 1917; given to the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, 1920 |
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Associated namesArthur Leslie GreenEliza Greene Metcalf Radeke |
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BibliographyChristopher P. Monkhouse and Thomas S. Michie, American Furniture in Pendleton House (Providence: Rhode Island School of Design Museum, 1986), 212, no. 156, ill.Wallace Nutting, A Windsor Handbook: Comprising Illustrations and Descriptions of Windsor Furniture of all Periods (Boston: Old American Company Publishers, 1917), 9697. Wallace Nutting, Furniture Treasury, 1st ed., 3 vols. (Framingham, Mass.: Old American Company Publishers, 192833), vol. 2, no. 2516, ill. |