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Banister-back side chair

Object number

RIF6073

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

46 1/2 × 19 1/4 × 14 1/2 in. (118.11 × 48.9 × 36.83 cm)

Date

1720–40

Current location

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Geography

Made in
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Medium

Maple

Marks

None

Inscriptions

None

Provenance

Found in Stonington, Connecticut, by Robert F. Grabosky, Foxboro, Massachusetts, ca. 1980; sold to John Walton, Inc., Griswold and Jewett City, Connecticut; sold to Anne H. and Frederick Vogel III, Milwaukee, 1983; gift to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2016

Associated names

John S. Walton, Inc.
Robert F. Grabosky
Anne H. Vogel
Frederick Vogel III

See also

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), 193n1.