Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy The Henry Ford, Dearborn, Mich., 59.82.14 Click the image to enlarge	Side chair
	Object number RIF3965
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions 40 � 22 � 21 1/4 in. (101.6 � 55.88 � 53.98 cm)
	Date 1790–1810
	Current location The Henry Ford
	Geography Made in Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany (primary); maple (seat rails); pine (corner blocks)
	Marks None
	Inscriptions None
	Provenance Louis E. Brooks (1880–1958), Marshall, Michigan; given to The Henry Ford, Dearborn, Michigan, by 1960
	Associated names Louis E. Brooks
	See also RIF196 RIF718 RIF1356 RIF1388 RIF2379 RIF2930 RIF3019 RIF3094 RIF3483 RIF3774 RIF4346 RIF4442 RIF4443 RIF4934 RIF6414 RIF6740
	Bibliography John T. Kirk, American Furniture and the British Tradition to 1830 (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982), 285, fig. 1046. Helen Comstock, "Acquisitions from the Louis E. Brooks Collection at the Henry Ford Museum," Antiques 78, no. 6 (December 1960): 569, fig. 11. Robert Bishop, Centuries and Styles of the American Chair, 1640–1970 (New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1972), 261, fig. 396, 396a.

Side chair