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Side chair |
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Object numberRIF4935 |
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MakerMaker Unknown |
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Dimensions39 7/8 × 22 1/4 × 21 1/4 in. (101.28 × 56.52 × 53.98 cm) |
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Date174060 |
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Current locationUnknown |
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GeographyProbably made in Newport, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumWalnut (primary); maple (slip seat frame) |
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MarksNone |
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Inscriptions"III," incised, on rabbet of front rail; "II," incised, on slip seat frame |
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StyleQueen Anne |
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ProvenanceHarry Arons, 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 1821, 2018, lot 766 |
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Associated namesHarry AronsConstance Pember Godfrey Dudley J. Godfrey, Jr. Dudley and Constance Godfrey Foundation Sotheby's |
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See also |
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BibliographySotheby's, New York, Important Americana, sale cat. (January 1821, 2018), vol. 2, p. 53, lot 766, ill."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, 16501830, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2016), 257n7. Lita Solis-Cohen, "Americana at Sotheby's," Maine Antique Digest (March 2018): 17-E. |