Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Little Compton Historical Society, Rhode Island, 2000.0207 Click the image to enlarge	Banister-back armchair
	Object number RIF4283
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions 50 1/4 � 23 3/16 � 17 1/2 in. (127.635 � 58.928 � 44.45 cm)
	Date 1720–80
	Current location Carlton Coggeshall Brownell
	Geography Made in Little Compton, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Maple and ash
	Marks Unknown
	Inscriptions Unknown
	Style William and Mary
	Provenance By descent in the Little family of Little Compton, Rhode Island. Carlton C. Brownell, Little Compton, Rhode Island; lent to the Little Compton Historical Society, Rhode Island
	Associated names Little family
	See also RIF775 RIF1687 RIF2647 RIF2849 RIF3361 RIF4280 RIF4281 RIF4282 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 [no illus.]. Little Compton Historical Society, "Chair, Dining," http://littlecompton.pastperfect-online.com/35259cgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=C0A6A11C-D134-49E8-9E77-659925533885;type=101 (accessed March 16, 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.

Banister-back armchair