Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

From: John T. Kirk, American Chairs: Queen Anne and Chippendale (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972), 138, fig. 179 Click the image to enlarge	Slipper chair
	Object number RIF3989
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions Height of seat rail: 13 1/4 in. (33.655 cm) Height: 35 1/2 in. (90.17 cm) Width: 20 1/2 in. (52.07 cm)
	Date 1750–70
	Current location Unknown
	Geography Made in Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Walnut (primary); pine (corner blocks)
	Provenance Norman Herreshoff (1903–1990), Bristol, Rhode Island, by 1965
	Associated names Norman Herreshoff
	See also RIF655 RIF736 RIF832 RIF1864 RIF1865 RIF2013 RIF2333 RIF2884 RIF3086 RIF3087 RIF3358 RIF3556 RIF3730 RIF3822 RIF4884 RIF4885 RIF4887 RIF4954 RIF5635 RIF6653 RIF6654
	Bibliography John T. Kirk, American Chairs: Queen Anne and Chippendale (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972), 138, fig. 179. Joseph K. Ott, The John Brown House Loan Exhibition of Rhode Island Furniture, exh. cat. (Providence: The Rhode Island Historical Society, 1965), 10–11, no. 10, ill. Robert Bishop, Centuries and Styles of the American Chair, 1640–1970 (New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1972), 159, fig. 200. Patricia E. Kane et al., Art and Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 1650–1830, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2016), 268nn4, 6.

Slipper chair