image of object
Photo: Courtesy Brooklyn Museum, Purchase gift of Wunsch Foundation Inc., 2000.17.2 http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/collections
Click the image to enlarge

Side chair

Object number

RIF4734

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

38 3/8 × 21 1/2 × 19 1/2 in. (97.473 × 54.61 × 49.53 cm)

Date

1755–80

Current location

Brooklyn Museum of Art

Geography

Made in Newport, Rhode Island
(view a map of Rhode Island)

Medium

Mahogany

Provenance

Unknown sale, Christie's, New York; sold to Wunsch Americana Foundation, Inc., New York; given to the Brooklyn Museum, New York, 2000

Associated names

Christie's
Wunsch Americana Foundation, Inc.

See also

Bibliography

"Brooklyn Museum, Collections: Decorative Arts: Side Chair," http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/161095/Side_Chair/set/7ec84f285c03fd815b3e7a6e611d65c8?referring-q=2000.17.2 (accessed September 22, 2011).
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), 253n3.