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Side chair

Object number

RIF4835

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

41 × 21 1/2 × 17 1/2 in. (104.14 × 54.61 × 44.45 cm)

Date

1740–60

Current location

Unknown

Geography

Probably made in Massachusetts, formerly said to have been made in Rhode Island
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Medium

Walnut (primary); maple (seat frame)

Provenance

By descent in the Cross family, Providence, Rhode Island. Brown family, Providence, Rhode Island. Bernard and S. Dean Levy, Inc., New York, 1978

Associated names

Cross family
Brown family of Providence, Rhode Island
Bernard and S. Dean Levy, Inc.

Bibliography

"Bernard and S. Dean Levy, Inc., advertisement," Antiques 113, no. 2 (February 1978): 265.