image of object
Photo: Courtesy Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Bequest of Ella Hodges Harlow, 35.269; photo by Erik Gould
Click the image to enlarge

Side chair

Object number

RIF3994

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

39 1/2 × 21 1/2 × 16 13/16 in. (100.33 × 54.61 × 42.7 cm) Height, seat: 16 1/4 in. (41.28 cm)

Date

1740–1760

Current location

Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design

Geography

Probably made in Massachusetts, formerly said to have been made in Rhode Island
(view a map of Rhode Island)

Medium

Maple

Marks

Unknown

Inscriptions

Seat is notched "v" and seat frame "III"

Style

Queen Anne

Provenance

Ella Hodges Harlow (1855–1930), Providence, Rhode Island, and Boston, Massachusetts; by descent to her husband, Jonathan Edwards Harlow (1852–1935), Brookline, Massachusetts; bequeathed to the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, 1935

Associated names

Ella Hodges Harlow
Jonathan Edwards Harlow

Bibliography

John T. Kirk, Early American Furniture: How to Recognize, Evaluate, and Care for the Most Beautiful Pieces: High Style, Country, Primitive and Rustic (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970), 73, fig. 55.
John T. Kirk, American Chairs: Queen Anne and Chippendale (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972), 130, fig. 162.
"American and English Decorative Arts," Antiques 104, no. 4 (October 1973): 534.
Hedy B. Landman, "The Pendleton House at the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design," Antiques 107, no. 5 (May 1975): 927.
Christopher P. Monkhouse and Thomas S. Michie, American Furniture in Pendleton House (Providence: Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 1986), 161–162, no. 102, ill.