Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Little Compton Historical Society, Rhode Island, 2000.0208 Click the image to enlarge	Banister-back side chair
	Object number RIF4738
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions 44 � 20 � 14 3/16 in. (111.76 � 50.8 � 36.068 cm)
	Date 1720–80
	Current location Little Compton Historical Society
	Geography Probably made in Little Compton, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Maple, ash or oak
	Marks None
	Inscriptions "Bessie Gray / Bequest" written on bottom of seat
	Style William and Mary, Vernacular
	Provenance Elizabeth (Bessie) Gray, Little Compton, Rhode Island; bequeathed to Little Compton Historical Society, Rhode Island, 2000
	Associated names Elizabeth (Bessie) Gray
	See also RIF775 RIF1687 RIF2647 RIF2849 RIF3361 RIF4280 RIF4281 RIF4282 RIF4283 RIF4284 RIF4285 RIF4288 RIF4289 RIF4739 RIF4740 RIF4746
	Bibliography Little Compton Historical Society, "Chair, Dining," http://littlecompton.pastperfect-online.com/35259cgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=D21264AC-1F53-4D08-9696-223474546607;type=101 (accessed March 2, 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 side chair