Photo: Courtesy Little Compton Historical Society, Rhode Island, 2000.0211
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Banister-back side chair |
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Object numberRIF4746 |
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MakerMaker Unknown |
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Dimensions44 1/2 × 20 × 14 1/4 in. (113.03 × 50.8 × 36.195 cm) |
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Date172080 |
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Current locationLittle Compton Historical Society |
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GeographyProbably made in Little Compton, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumMaple; cornhusk (seat) |
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MarksUnknown |
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Inscriptions"$500, purchased 1983" "Ellis Wilbor Fam. / Shaw Road / Purchase 1984." Marked on bottom: |
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ProvenanceBy descent in the Ellis Wilbor family, Shaw Road, Little Compton, Rhode Island; sold to the Little Compton Historical Society, Rhode Island, 1983 |
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Associated namesEllis Wilbor family |
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See also |
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BibliographyJoseph K. Ott, "A Group of Rhode Island Banister-back Chairs," Antiques 125, no. 5 (May 1984): 1171 [no illus.].Little Compton Historical Society, "Chair, Dining," http://littlecompton.pastperfect-online.com/35259cgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=6E5CE35C-3F26-4653-BDEC-470569851598;type=101 (accessed March 2, 2010). Patricia E. Kane et al., Art and Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 16501830, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2016), 185n2. |