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Photo: Courtesy Hunter House, The Preservation Society of Newport County, Newport, Rhode Island; photo by Tracey Kroll
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Side chairs, pair

Object number

RIF4804

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

42 × 22 × 16 1/2 in. (106.68 × 55.88 × 41.91 cm)

Date

1740–90

Current location

Preservation Society of Newport County

Geography

Made in Newport, Rhode Island
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Medium

Maple

Provenance

By descent in the Hunter family to Anna Caroline Hunter Rotch Dunn (1879–1959), Newport, Rhode Island; Preservation Society of Newport County, Rhode Island

Associated names

Hunter family
Anna Caroline Rotch Dunn

Notes

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Bibliography

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), 258, no. 46, fig. 1–2.