Photo: Courtesy Little Compton Historical Society, Rhode Island, 1996.0262
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Banister-back side chair |
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Object numberRIF4281 |
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MakerMaker Unknown |
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Dimensions45 1/2 × 20 × 14 in. (115.57 × 50.8 × 35.56 cm) |
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Date172080 |
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Current locationLittle Compton Historical Society |
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GeographyProbably made in Little Compton, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumMaple and ash; cornhusk (seat) |
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MarksUnknown |
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InscriptionsUnknown |
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ProvenanceBy descent in the Hilliard family, Little Compton, Rhode Island. Pearce family, Little Compton, Rhode Island; sold to the Little Compton Historical Society, Rhode Island, 1979 |
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Associated namesHilliard FamilyPearce family |
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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, right, 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. Little Compton Historical Society, "Chair, Dining," http://littlecompton.pastperfect-online.com/35259cgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=1ACF3CB3-FEB8-4EB9-8D2F-195834904560;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), 185n2. |