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From: Luke Vincent Lockwood, Colonial Furniture in America vol. 2 (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926), 10, fig. 411
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Spindle-back armchair

Object number

RIF4149

Maker

Maker Unknown

Date

1650–1700

Current location

Saint Louis Art Museum

Geography

Made in Rhode Island
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Medium

Ash

Provenance

Luke Vincent Lockwood (1872–1951), Greenwich, Connecticut, by 1926; consigned to Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, November 7, 1942, lot 181

Associated names

Luke Vincent Lockwood
Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc.

See also

Bibliography

Luke Vincent Lockwood, Colonial Furniture in America, 3rd ed., 2 vols. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926), vol. 2, p. 10, fig. 411.
Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, Rare Early American Furniture from the Collection of Mrs. Luke Vincent Lockwood, sale cat. (November 7, 1942), 44, lot 181, ill.
Lynn E. Springer, "American Furniture in the Saint Louis Art Museum," Antiques 121, no. 5 (May 1982): 1186, fig. 1.
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), 144n4.