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From: Wallace Nutting, Furniture of the Pilgrim Century, 1620-1720 (Boston, Mass.: Marshall Jones Company Publishers, 1921), 205
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Slat-back armchair

Object number

RIF4160

Maker

Maker Unknown

Date

1650–1700

Current location

Unknown

Geography

Possibly made in Rhode Island
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Style

Jacobean

Provenance

Chauncey C. Nash (born 1885), Boston, Massachusetts, by 1921

Associated names

Chauncey C. Nash

Notes

The elongated ogee turnings on the front posts are related to those on other early Rhode Island chairs.

Bibliography

Wallace Nutting, Furniture of the Pilgrim Century, 1620–1720 (Boston: Marshall Jones Company, 1921), 205, ill.