Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Sotheby's, New York Click the image to enlarge	Side chair
	Object number RIF4935
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions 39 7/8 � 22 1/4 � 21 1/4 in. (101.28 � 56.52 � 53.98 cm)
	Date 1740–60
	Current location Unknown
	Geography Probably made in Newport, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Walnut (primary); maple (slip seat frame)
	Marks None
	Inscriptions "III," incised, on rabbet of front rail; "II," incised, on slip seat frame
	Provenance Harry Arons (1891–1967), Bridgeport, Connecticut, 1967. Constance Pember Godfrey (1929 - 2014) and Dudley J. Godfrey, Jr. (1926 - 2007), Milwaukee, Wisconsin; consigned by the Dudley and Constance Godfrey Foundation to Sotheby's, New York, January 18–21, 2018, lot 766
	Associated names Harry Arons Constance Pember Godfrey Dudley J. Godfrey, Jr. Dudley and Constance Godfrey Foundation Sotheby's
	See also RIF78 RIF214 RIF334 RIF1227 RIF1231 RIF2736 RIF3410 RIF3753 RIF4189 RIF4901 RIF4936 RIF4965 RIF5649 RIF5818
	Bibliography "Harry Arons, advertisement," Antiques 91, no. 4 (April 1967): 417, ill. 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), 257n7. Sotheby's, New York, Important Americana, sale cat. (January 18–21, 2018), vol. 2, p. 53, lot 766, ill. Lita Solis-Cohen, "Americana at Sotheby's," Maine Antique Digest (March 2018): 17-E.

Side chair