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Banister-back side chair

Object number

RIF5505

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

26 1/4 × 26 1/4 in. (66.68 × 66.68 cm)

Date

1730–70

Current location

Private collection

Geography

Made in Rhode Island
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Medium

Maple

Marks

None

Inscriptions

None

Style

William and Mary, Vernacular

Provenance

Nicholas Carr (1732–1813), Jamestown, Rhode Island; by descent in the Carr family

Associated names

Nicholas Carr

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), 195n2.