Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Skinner, Inc., Boston and Marlborough, Mass. Click the image to enlarge	Side chair
	Object number RIF5649
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions Height: 41 1/4 in. (104.78 cm) Height, seat: 19 in. (48.26 cm) Width, front feet: 22 in. (55.88 cm) Depth: 21 1/2 in. (54.61 cm)
	Date 1740–1760
	Current location Private Collection
	Geography Probably made in Newport, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Walnut (primary); maple (slip seat frame)
	Marks None
	Inscriptions “VIII,” incised on rabbet of front seat rail and on underside of front rail of slip seat
	Provenance Skinner, Inc., Boston and Marlborough, Massachusetts (sale held Boston), October 28, 2012, lot 111. Private collection, 2014
	Associated names Skinner, Inc.
	See also RIF78 RIF214 RIF334 RIF1227 RIF1231 RIF2736 RIF3410 RIF3753 RIF4901 RIF4935 RIF4936 RIF4965 RIF5818
	Bibliography Skinner, Inc., Boston and Marlborough, Mass., American Furniture and Decorative Arts, sale cat. (October 28, 2012), 28, lot 111, ill. "Skinner, Inc., advertisement," Antiques and the Arts Weekly (October 12, 2012): 75, ill. "Skinner Sells American Furniture and Decorative Arts," Antiques and the Arts Weekly (Novermber 16, 2012): 41, ill. 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), 257n7.

Side chair