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Banister-back armchair

Object number

RIF4900

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

46 1/2 × 24 7/8 × 17 1/2 in. (118.1 × 63.2 × 44.5 cm)

Date

1700–1750

Current location

Yale University Art Gallery

Geography

Made in Rhode Island
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Medium

Maple with hickory side stretchers; one oak arm and front post

Marks

None

Inscriptions

None

Provenance

Francis P. Garvan (1875–1937), New York; given to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, 1930

Associated names

Francis P. Garvan

See also

Bibliography

Douglass Scott, Joan Ketter, and Michael Boodro, The American Clock, 1725–1865, Forgeries and Restorations in American Furniture: Two Yale Student Exhibitions, May 18–June 28, 1974, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Garvan Furniture Study, May 18–June 28, 1974), n.p., no. 4.