Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Winterthur Museum and Country Estate, Del., 1958.2221 Click the image to enlarge	Side chair
	Object number RIF4901
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions 40 1/4 � 20 � 20 7/8 in. (102.235 � 50.8 � 53.023 cm)
	Date 1740–1760
	Current location Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library
	Geography Probably made in Massachusetts, formerly said to have been made in Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium American black walnut (primary); soft maple (front and side seat rails); white pine (splat core)
	Provenance Henry Francis du Pont (1880–1969) Winterthur, Delaware; bequeathed to Winterthur Museum and Country Estate, Delaware, 1969
	Associated names Henry Francis du Pont
	See also RIF78 RIF214 RIF334 RIF1227 RIF1231 RIF2736 RIF3410 RIF3753 RIF3999 RIF4935 RIF4936 RIF4965 RIF5019 RIF5649 RIF5818
	Bibliography Nancy E. Richards and Nancy Goyne Evans, New England Furniture at Winterthur: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods (Winterthur, Del.: Winterthur Publications, 1997), 24–26, no. 13. Joan Barzilay Freund and Leigh Keno, "The Making and Marketing of Boston Seating Furniture in the Late Baroque Style," American Furniture (1998): 14–15, fig. 21. Robert Bishop, Centuries and Styles of the American Chair, 1640–1970 (New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1972), 86, fig. 86. 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), 257n5.

Side chair