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Photo: Courtesy The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Va. Gift of Dr. and Mrs. John M. Bobbitt, 2006-134
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Easy chair


Object number

RIF5421

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

48 × 35 × 25 in. (121.92 × 88.9 × 63.5 cm)

Date

1755–70

Current location

The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Virginia

Geography

Made in Newport, Rhode Island
(view a map of Rhode Island)

Medium

Black walnut front legs, side and medial stretchers; maple rear legs and rear stretcher; possible white pine secondary.

Marks

Unknown

Inscriptions

Unknown

Provenance

Teina Baumstone, New York; sold to Dr. and Mrs. John M. Bobbitt, 1967; given to the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Virginia, 2006

Associated names

Teina Baumstone
Dr. and Mrs. John M. Bobbitt

See also