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Spindle-back armchair |
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Object numberRIF3895 |
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MakerMaker Unknown |
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Dimensions39 1/2 × 24 1/2 × 17 in. (100.33 × 62.23 × 43.18 cm) |
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Date166090 |
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Current locationMuseum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design |
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GeographyPossibly made in Warwick, Rhode Island, or made in(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumCottonwood (Populus sp.) and ash |
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ProvenanceSarah Wickes (died 1753), Warwick, Rhode Island; by descent to her son, Thomas Wickes (17151803), Warwick; by descent to his grandson, Wickes Gardiner (17771840), South Kingstown, Rhode Island; by descent to his son, Thomas Wickes Gardiner (18051885), Warwick; by descent to his son, Thomas Wickes Gardiner, Jr., (18611917); by descent to his daughter, Eliza D. Gardiner (18711955), Cranston, Rhode Island; given by her estate to the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, 1955 |
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Associated namesSarah WickesThomas Wickes Wickes Gardiner Thomas Wickes Gardiner Thomas Wickes Gardiner, Jr. Eliza D. Gardiner |
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BibliographyChristopher P. Monkhouse and Thomas S. Michie, American Furniture in Pendleton House (Providence: Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 1986), 146, no. 84, ill.Patricia E. Kane et al., Art and Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 16501830, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2016), 30n14. |