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Side chair [no illustration]

Object number

RIF4350

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

39 1/2 × 23 × 17 in. (100.33 × 58.42 × 43.18 cm) Height, seat: 18 in. (45.72 cm)

Date

1780–1800

Current location

The Rhode Island Historical Society

Geography

Made in Rhode Island
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Medium

Mahogany (primary); beech (front rail and corner braces of 1953.1.42d); birch or maple (side rails)

Marks

None

Style

Hepplewhite, Federal

Provenance

Henry A. Hoffman (born 1873), Litchfield, Connecticut, and Barrington, Rhode Island; given to the Rhode Historical Society, Providence, 1953

Associated names

Henry A. Hoffman