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From: John S. Walton advertisement, Antiques 63 (February 1953): 88
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Side chairs, set of six

Object number

RIF4942

Maker

Maker Unknown
Maker, formerly attributed to John Townsend, American, 1732/33–1809

Dimensions

48 × 40 × 24 in. (121.92 × 101.6 × 60.96 cm)

Date

1770–90

Current location

Unknown

Geography

Made in Newport, Rhode Island
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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

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.