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Banister-back side chair

Object number

RIF4741

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

42 1/2 × 20 1/2 × 14 1/2 in. (107.95 × 52.07 × 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

Provenance

Amasa Gray House, West Main Road, Little Compton, Rhode Island. Edward Duffield, Little Compton, Rhode Island; given to the Little Compton Historical Society, Rhode Island, 2005

Associated names

Amasa Gray House
Edward Duffield

See also

Bibliography

Little Compton Historical Society, "Chair, Dining," http://littlecompton.pastperfect-online.com/35259cgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=89872C73-9CB2-11DA-93E9-012991029000;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.