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Side chair

Object number

RIF4376

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

40 1/4 × 22 × 18 in. (102.235 × 55.88 × 45.72 cm)

Date

1740–60

Current location

Geography

Probably made in Massachusetts
(view a map of Rhode Island)

Medium

Walnut (primary)

Style

Queen Anne

Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. James Campbell Lewis, Cornish, New Hampshire; consigned by their estate to William A. Smith, Inc., Plainfield, New Hampshire, May 29, 1971; sold to Doris Duke (1912–1993) for Newport Restoration Foundation, Rhode Island, 1971; Whitehorne House Museum, Newport Restoration Foundation, Rhode Island, from 1974

Associated names

Mr. and Mrs. James Campbell Lewis
William A. Smith, Inc., Auctioneers and Appraisers
Doris Duke
Newport Restoration Foundation, Rhode Island