Photo: Courtesy The Henry Ford, Dearborn, Mich., 30.101.4
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Spindle-back armchair |
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Object numberRIF5046 |
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MakerMaker Unknown |
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Dimensions53 1/2 × 25 × 23 in. (135.89 × 63.5 × 58.42 cm) |
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Date16801700 |
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Current locationThe Henry Ford |
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GeographyMade in Newport, Rhode Island, or made in Little Compton, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumMaple (primary); ash (seat rails) |
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MarksNone |
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InscriptionsNone |
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ProvenanceIsrael Sack, Inc., Boston; sold to Henry Ford (18631947), Dearborn, Michigan, 1930; The Henry Ford, Dearborn, Michigan |
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Associated namesHenry Ford |
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See also |
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BibliographyRobert Bishop, How to Know American Antique Furniture (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1973), 25, fig. 13.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), 30n20, 142n2. Helena Hayward, ed., World Furniture: An Illustrated History (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1965), 108, fig. 380. |