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From: Joseph Ott, "The John Brown House Loan Exhibition of Rhode Island Furniture," Providence, RI: Rhode Island Historical Society, p.3-4.
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Side chair

Object number

RIF3721

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

41 × 20 1/2 in. (104.14 × 52.07 cm) Height: 17 in. (43.18 cm)

Date

1725–40

Current location

Unknown

Geography

Possibly made in Rhode Island
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Medium

Walnut (primary); yellow poplar (secondary)

Provenance

Ginsburg and Levy, New York, 1960. Joseph K. Ott (1929–1994), Providence, Rhode Island, by 1965

Associated names

Joseph K. Ott

Bibliography

"Ginsburg and Levy advertisement," Antiques 77, no. 4 (April 1960): 331.
Joseph K. Ott, The John Brown House Loan Exhibition of Rhode Island Furniture, exh. cat. (Providence: The Rhode Island Historical Society, 1965), 2–3, no. 1, ill.