Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Little Compton Historical Society, Rhode Island, 2000.0213 Click the image to enlarge	Banister-back side chair
	Object number RIF4740
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions 45 � 19 1/2 � 14 1/2 in. (114.3 � 49.53 � 36.83 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
	Marks Unknown
	Inscriptions Unknown
	Style William and Mary, Vernacular
	Provenance Auction sale, Soule-Seabury House, Tiverton Four Corners, Rhode Island; sold to Joseph K. Ott (1929–1994) and Anne Ott, Providence, Rhode Island, 1981; given to the Little Compton Historical Society, Rhode Island, 1993
	Associated names Soule-Seabury House Joseph K. Ott Anne Northrop Ott
	See also RIF775 RIF1687 RIF2647 RIF2849 RIF3361 RIF4280 RIF4281 RIF4282 RIF4283 RIF4284 RIF4285 RIF4288 RIF4289 RIF4738 RIF4739 RIF4746
	Bibliography Joseph K. Ott, "A Group of Rhode Island Banister-back Chairs," Antiques 125, no. 5 (May 1984): 1171[no illus.]. "Chair, Dining," http://littlecompton.pastperfect-online.com/35259cgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=AB0D8CA7-7787-42E4-92DD-151243907002;type=101 (accessed March 12, 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