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Banister-back armchair

Object number

RIF4044

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

47 3/4 × 23 7/8 × 15 in. (121.29 × 60.64 × 38.1 cm) Height, seat: 17 3/8 in. (44.13 cm) Width, back: 16 1/2 in. (41.91 cm)

Date

1730–60

Current location

Wadsworth Atheneum

Geography

Made in Rhode Island
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Medium

Maple (front legs, rear stiles, crest, banisters, front stretchers, and arm rests); oak (side and rear stretchers and seat rails)

Marks

None

Inscriptions

None

Style

vernacular style, William and Mary

Provenance

Wallace Nutting (1861–1941), Framingham, Massachusetts; the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, 1926

Associated names

Wallace Nutting

See also

Bibliography

Wallace Nutting, Furniture of the Pilgrim Century, 1620–1720 (Boston: Marshall Jones Company, 1921), 212, left, ill.
Wallace Nutting, Furniture of the Pilgrim Century 1620–1720 (Framingham, Mass.: Old American Company Publishers, 1924), 314, 323,, no. 359, ill.
Wallace Nutting, Furniture Treasury (New York: MacMillan Company, 1963), no. 1911, ill.
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), 185n3.