Photo: Courtesy Little Compton Historical Society, Rhode Island, 1996.0260; photo by Tracey Kroll
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Banister-back armchair |
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Object numberRIF4280 |
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MakerMaker Unknown |
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Dimensions45 × 23 × 15 1/2 in. (114.3 × 58.42 × 39.37 cm) |
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Date17201800 |
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Current locationLittle Compton Historical Society |
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GeographyMade in Little Compton, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumMaple and ash |
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MarksUnknown |
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InscriptionsUnknown |
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ProvenancePossibly John Irish (16451717/18), Little Compton, Rhode Island; by descent in the Irish family, West Road, Little Compton, Rhode Island; Theodora Wilbor Peckham, Little Compton, Rhode Island; given to the Little Compton Historical Society, Rhode Island by 1984 |
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Associated namesJohn IrishIrish family Theodora Wilbour Peckham |
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See also |
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BibliographyJoseph K. Ott, "A Group of Rhode Island Banister-back Chairs," Antiques 125, no. 5 (May 1984): 1171, left, ill.Brock Jobe, Gary R. Sullivan, and Jack O'Brien, Harbor and Home: Furniture of Southeastern Massachusetts, 17101850 (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 2009), 404, entry 10n4. "Chair, Dining," http://littlecompton.pastperfect-online.com/35259cgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=ACE9A886-7360-411A-BC54-904663065218;type=101 (accessed March 2, 2010). Little Compton Historical Society, "Chair, Dining," http://littlecompton.pastperfect-online.com/35259cgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=2861F433-8155-452F-BBCC-786694782409;type=101 (accessed March 2, 2010). Patricia E. Kane et al., Art and Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 16501830, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2016), 26, 185n2, 186, 187n3, fig. 14. |