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Easy chair |
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Object numberRIF5202 |
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MakerMaker Unknown |
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Dimensions48 1/4 × 34 1/2 × 30 3/4 in. (122.56 × 87.63 × 78.11 cm) |
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Date174080 |
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Current locationPrivate Collection |
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GeographyMade in Newport, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumWalnut (primary); maple (rear legs) |
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ProvenancePossibly John G. Wanton (17291799), Newport, Rhode Island; by descent to his daughter Mary "Polly" Wanton (born 1762) and her husband, Daniel Lyman (17561830), Newport and North Providence, Rhode Island; by descent to their daughter Mrs. Jacob Dunnell (née Mary Wanton Lyman, born 1788), North Providence; by descent to her son Jacob Dunnell (18111886), Pawtucket, Rhode Island; by descent to his son William Wanton Dunnell (born 1850), Pawtucket; by descent to his son William Wanton Dunnell, Jr. (born 1894), Pawtucket; by descent to his son William Wanton Dunnell III (born 1932), Boston, Massachusetts; by descent to the present owner |
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Associated namesDaniel LymanMary "Polly" Wanton Mary Wanton Lyman John G. Wanton William Dunnell, Jr. Jacob Dunnell William Dunnell William Dunnell III |
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BibliographyPatricia E. Kane et al., Art and Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 16501830, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2016), 276n3. |