Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Preservation Society of Newport County, 1716a–b; photo by Christopher Gardner Click the image to enlarge	Easy chair
	Object number RIF5004
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions 48 � 40 � 24 in. (121.92 � 101.6 � 60.96 cm)
	Date 1740–60
	Current location Preservation Society of Newport County
	Geography Made in Newport, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany
	Marks Unknown
	Inscriptions Unknown
	Style Queen Anne
	Provenance By descent in the family of Godfrey Malbone (1724–1785), Newport, Rhode Island; by descent to Godfrey Malbone Birckhead, Palm Beach, Florida; given to the Preservation Society of Newport County, Rhode Island, 1990
	Associated names Family of Godfrey Malbone, Newport, Rhode Island Godfrey Malbone Birckhead
	See also RIF768
	Bibliography 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), 272, 376, no. 50, fig. 2.

Easy chair