Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Little Compton Historical Society, Rhode Island, 1996.0262 Click the image to enlarge	Banister-back side chair
	Object number RIF4281
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions 45 1/2 � 20 � 14 in. (115.57 � 50.8 � 35.56 cm)
	Date 1720–80
	Current location Little Compton Historical Society
	Geography Probably made in Little Compton, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Maple and ash; cornhusk (seat)
	Marks Unknown
	Inscriptions Unknown
	Provenance By 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
	Associated names Hilliard Family Pearce family
	See also RIF775 RIF1687 RIF2647 RIF2849 RIF3361 RIF4280 RIF4282 RIF4283 RIF4284 RIF4285 RIF4288 RIF4289 RIF4738 RIF4739 RIF4740 RIF4746
	Bibliography Joseph 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, 1710–1850 (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, 1650–1830, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2016), 185n2.