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Banister-back side chair |
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Object numberRIF5986 |
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MakerMaker Unknown |
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Dimensions45 × 20 1/4 × 14 3/4 in. (114.3 × 51.44 × 37.47 cm) |
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Date173080 |
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Current locationPrivate Collection |
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GeographyMade in Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumMaple (stretchers, rear posts, lower back rail, spindles, and crest); ring porous wood(?) (side seat rails) |
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MarksNone |
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InscriptionsNone |
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ProvenanceCharitable Baptist Society of the First Baptist Church in America, Providence, Rhode Island; consigned to Northeast Auctions, Hampton, New Hampshire (sale held Manchester, New Hampshire), August 78, 1993, lot 566 (right); sold to Judith Herdeg and John A. Herdeg, Mendenhall, Pennsylvania |
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Associated namesCharitable Baptist Society of the First Baptist Church in AmericaNortheast Auctions |
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ConstructionThe double-arched crest rail has a beaded front top edge and is tenoned into its flanking stiles, each joint showing one wood pin in the back only. The ends of the crest rail back are deeply chamfered. Three split banisters below, flat in front and rounded in back, match the turnings of the stiles and are tenoned into the underside of the crest rail and the top of the lower rail, which is flat in front, has a double-serpentine skirt, and is deeply chamfered at the ends where it is tenoned into the stiles. The rush-covered seat rails are doweled into the legs, as are the turned front stretchers, the pairs of plain side stretchers, and the plain single rear stretcher. Examined by P. E. Kane and J. N. Johnson, April 21, 2014; notes compiled by T. B. Lloyd. |
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BibliographyNortheast Auctions, Hampton, N.H., Important Americana and Folk Art, sale cat. (August 78, 1993), 37, lot 566 (right).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), 185n4. |