Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Christie's, New York Click the image to enlarge	Side chairs, pair
	Object number RIF6297
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions Height: 36 1/2 in. (92.71 cm)
	Date 1750–70
	Current location Unknown
	Geography Made in Newport, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Walnut
	Inscriptions "This chair probably came down in the Robinson House," written on paper label affixed each chair
	Style Chippendale
	Provenance Thomas Robinson (1730–1817), Newport, Rhode Island; by descent to his wife, Sarah Richardson Robinson (1733-1817), Newport, Rhode Island; by descent to her daughter Mary Morton (1757–1829), Philadelphia; by descent to her daughter Esther Smith (1797-1865), Philadelphia; by descent to her son Benjamin Raper Smith (1825-1904), Philadelphia and Newport, Rhode Island; by descent to his wife Esther Fisher Smith (n�e Wharton, 1836–1915), Philadelphia and Newport, Rhode Island; by descent to her son Edward Wanton Smith (1875–1940), Philadelphia and Newport, Rhode Island; by descent to his son Edward Wanton Smith, Jr. (1920–2001), Jamestown, Rhode Island; by descent to Josh Wanton Smith, Newport, Rhode Island; consigned to Christie’s, New York, January 20–21, 2005, lot 546
	Associated names Thomas Robinson Sarah Richardson Robinson Benjamin Raper Smith Edward Wanton Smith Edward Wanton Smith, Jr. Josh Wanton Smith Christie's
	See also RIF3169 RIF3200 RIF3886 RIF4797 RIF4887
	Bibliography Christie's, New York, Important American Furniture, Folk Art, Silver, and Prints, sale cat. (January 20–21, 2005), 314, lot 546, 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), 264n1.