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Banister-back highchair

Object number

RIF5848

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

40 × 13 × 13 in. (101.6 × 33.02 × 33.02 cm)

Date

1720–50

Current location

Unknown

Geography

Made in Rhode Island
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Medium

Hickory and ash

Marks

Unknown

Inscriptions

Unknown

Provenance

Israel Sack, Inc., New York, 1968

Associated names

Israel Sack, Inc.

See also

Bibliography

American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, 10 vols. (Washington, D.C.: Highland House Publishers, 1957–89), vol. 2, p. 427, 1067.
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), 32n65.