Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

From: Wendy A. Cooper, "The Purchase of Furniture and Furnishings by John Brown, Providence Merchant, 1788-1803," Antiques 103 (February 1973): 330 Click the image to enlarge	Side chair
	Object number RIF4268
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions 37 1/2 � 21 � 17 1/8 in. (95.25 � 53.34 � 43.498 cm)
	Date 1780–1800
	Current location Unknown
	Geography Made in Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany (primary); chestnut (corner blocks)
	Style Chippendale
	Provenance John Brown (1736–1803), Providence, Rhode Island; by descent in the Brown family, South Kingstown, Rhode Island; by descent to Norman Herreshoff (1903–1990), Bristol, Rhode Island
	Associated names John Brown Brown family, South Kingston, Rhode Island Norman Herreshoff
	See also RIF131 RIF502 RIF1349 RIF1451 RIF1568 RIF3446 RIF3655 RIF3685 RIF3952 RIF4456 RIF4457 RIF4962 RIF5417 RIF6129 RIF6522
	Bibliography Wendy A. Cooper, "The Purchase of Furniture and Furnishings by John Brown, Providence Merchant, Part 1: 1760–1788," Antiques 103, no. 2 (February 1973): 330, 333, fig. 6. 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), 376n7.

Side chair