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From: John T. Kirk, American Chairs: Queen Anne and Chippendale (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972), 133, fig. 168
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Side chairs, set of five

Object number

RIF3992

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

Height: 38 3/4 in. (98.425 cm) Width: 20 1/2 in. (52.07 cm) Height of seat rail: 16 1/2 in. (41.91 cm)

Date

1740–70

Current location

Unknown

Geography

Probably made in Massachusetts, formerly said to have been made in Newport, Rhode Island
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Medium

Walnut (primary); pine (slip seat frame)

Style

Chippendale

Provenance

Parson Thomas Smith (1702–1795), Boston and Falmouth (now Portland), Maine. Ginsburg and Levy, Inc. New York, 1949. Mr. and Mrs. E. Ross Milhiser, Richmond, Virginia, by 1965

Associated names

Parson Thomas Smith
Ginsburg and Levy, Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. E. Ross Millhiser

See also

Bibliography

"Ginsburg and Levy, Inc., advertisement," Antiques 55, no. 6 (June 1949): 417, ill.
Clifford P. Monahon, "John Brown House Exhibition of Rhode Island Furniture," Rhode Island History 24, no. 2 (April 1965): 34, ill.
Joseph K. Ott, The John Brown House Loan Exhibition of Rhode Island Furniture, exh. cat. (Providence: The Rhode Island Historical Society, 1965), 8–9, no. 8, ill.
John T. Kirk, American Chairs: Queen Anne and Chippendale (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972), 133, fig. 168.
Joan Barzilay Freund, Alan Miller, and Leigh Keno, "The Very Pink of the Mode: Boston Georgian Chairs, Their Export, Their Influence," American Furniture (1996): 295–96, fig. 45.