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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

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.