Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

From: Joseph K. Ott, "Lesser-known Rhode Island Cabinetmakers: The Carliles, Holmes Weaver, Judson Blake, The Rawson, and Thomas Davenport," Antiques 121 (May 1982): 1163, fig.10, right Click the image to enlarge	Side chair, low
	Object number RIF4722
	Maker Maker Unknown Maker, possibly by Thomas Davenport, 1681?1745
	Dimensions Height: 35 in. (88.9 cm) Width: 21 1/4 in. (53.975 cm)
	Date 1740–50
	Current location Unknown
	Geography Made in Newport, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Walnut (primary); maple (slip seat frame)
	Inscriptions "VIIII" incised on the seat rail
	Style Queen Anne
	Provenance Joseph K. Ott (1929–1994), Providence, Rhode Island, by 1982
	Associated names Joseph K. Ott
	Bibliography Joseph K. Ott, "Lesser-Known Rhode Island Cabinetmakers: The Carliles, Holmes Weaver, Judson Blake, the Rawsons, and Thomas Davenport," Antiques 121, no. 5 (May 1982): 1163, fig. 10 (right). 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), 268n4.

Side chair, low