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Side chairs, pair |
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Object numberRIF6297 |
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MakerMaker Unknown |
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DimensionsHeight: 36 1/2 in. (92.71 cm) |
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Date175070 |
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Current locationUnknown |
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GeographyMade in Newport, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumWalnut |
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Inscriptions"This chair probably came down in the Robinson House," written on paper label affixed each chair |
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ProvenanceThomas Robinson (17301817), Newport, Rhode Island; by descent to his wife, Sarah Richardson Robinson (1733-1817), Newport, Rhode Island; by descent to her daughter Mary Morton (17571829), 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 (née Wharton, 18361915), Philadelphia and Newport, Rhode Island; by descent to her son Edward Wanton Smith (18751940), Philadelphia and Newport, Rhode Island; by descent to his son Edward Wanton Smith, Jr. (19202001), Jamestown, Rhode Island; by descent to Josh Wanton Smith, Newport, Rhode Island; consigned to Christies, New York, January 2021, 2005, lot 546 |
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Associated namesChristie'sThomas Robinson Sarah Richardson Robinson Edward Wanton Smith Edward Wanton Smith, Jr. Josh Wanton Smith Benjamin Raper Smith |
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See also |
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BibliographyChristie's, New York, Important American Furniture, Folk Art, Silver, and Prints, sale cat. (January 2021, 2005), 314, lot 546, ill.Patricia E. Kane et al., Art and Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 16501830, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2016), 264n1. |