Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

From: John S. Walton advertisement, Antiques 63 (February 1953): 88 Click the image to enlarge	Side chairs, set of six
	Object number RIF4942
	Maker Maker, formerly attributed to John Townsend, American, 1732/33–1809 Maker Unknown
	Date 1770–90
	Current location Unknown
	Geography Made in Newport, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany
	Provenance Governor Joseph Wanton (1705–1780), Newport, Rhode Island. John S. Walton, New York, 1953
	Associated names Governor Joseph Wanton John S. Walton, Inc.
	See also RIF865 RIF1100 RIF1471
	Bibliography "John S. Walton advertisment," Antiques 63, no.2 (February 1953): 88, 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), 376n3.

Side chairs, set of six