Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Winterthur Museum Decorative Arts Photographic Collection, Del., 65.1431 Click the image to enlarge	Side chair, one of a set of eight
	Object number RIF6208
	Maker Maker George Shipley, American, active ca. 1789 - 1803
	Dimensions 38 1/2 � 21 � 17 1/2 in. (97.79 � 53.34 � 44.45 cm)
	Date 1791–95
	Current location Unknown
	Geography Made in New York, or possibly made in Providence, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany (primary); chestnut (seat frame)
	Marks "Mahogany ready Saw'd up for Staricases & other purposes for Sale / ELEGANT MAHOG. FURNITURE / of the newest fashion, at SHIPLEY'S / MANUFACTORY / No. 161 / Water Street, / N. York," printed on a paper label affixed to underside of seat
	Inscriptions Unknown
	Provenance Descended in the Lawrence family, Flushing, New York, until 1945. Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Read, La Grange, Illinois, 1962
	Associated names Lawrence family Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Read
	See also RIF866 RIF3175 RIF5740 RIF6209 RIF6506 RIF6722
	Bibliography Nancy E. Richards, "Furniture of the Lower Connecticut River Valley: The Hartford Area, 1785–1810," Winterthur Portfolio 4 (1968): 8–10, fig. 8–9. 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), 418, 420, fig. 2.

Side chair, one of a set of eight