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Side chairs, pair

Object number

RIF5024

Maker

Maker, formerly attributed to Job Townsend, Sr., 1699–1765
Maker Unknown

Dimensions

40 3/8 × 21 1/8 × 21 in. (102.55 × 53.66 × 53.34 cm)

Date

1740–65

Current location

The Henry Ford

Geography

Probably made in Boston, formerly said to have been made in Rhode Island
(view a map of Rhode Island)

Medium

Walnut (primary); maple (slip seat frame)

Marks

None

Inscriptions

“I,” incised on rabbet of front seat rail and underside of front rail of slip seat

Provenance

Charlotte Kimball (1875–1960), Gilford, New Hampshire; sold by her estate at auction to Mr. Wilcoxen, Henniker, New Hampshire, 1960; sold to John S. Walton, Inc., New York; sold to The Henry Ford, Dearborn, Michigan, 1962

Associated names

Charlotte Kimball
Mr. Wilcoxen
John S. Walton, Inc.

See also

Bibliography

Katharine Bryant Hagler, American Queen Anne Furniture: 1720–1755, exh. cat. (Dearborn, Mich.: The Edison Institute, 1976), 27, ill.
"John S. Walton, Inc., advertisement," Antiques 79, no.2 (February 1961): 132, ill.