Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy The Art Institute of Chicago, Robert Allerton Fund, 1979.54 Click the image to enlarge	Side chair
	Object number RIF78
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions 41 7/8 � 20 3/4 � 16 in. (106.363 � 52.705 � 40.64 cm)
	Date 1740–60
	Current location Art Institute of Chicago
	Geography Possibly made in Newport, Rhode Island, or possibly made in Boston (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Walnut (primary); pine (glue blocks of seat [original?])
	Marks None
	Inscriptions “///,” incised on rabbet of front seat rail; “4 [later?],” in graphite, on proper-right interior side of rear seat rail; “3 [later?],” in graphite, on proper-left interior side of rear seat rail; illegible graphite, on underside of medial stretcher
	Provenance Israel Sack, Inc., New York, before 1965; sold to Ralph E. Carpenter, Jr., Scarsdale, New York, by 1965; sold to Israel Sack, Inc., New York, by 1979; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1979
	Associated names Ralph E. Carpenter, Jr. Israel Sack, Inc.
	See also RIF214 RIF334 RIF1227 RIF1231 RIF2736 RIF3410 RIF3753 RIF4901 RIF4935 RIF4936 RIF4965 RIF5649 RIF5818 RIF6229
	Bibliography Judith A. Barter et al., American Arts at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 63–64, no. 12, ill. Milo M. Naeve, "A New England Chair Design of 1730-1760 and Attributions to the Job Townsends of Newport," Newport History: Bulletin of the Newport Historical Society 72 (Spring 2003): 2, 13–17, charts I–IV, fig. 1. John T. Kirk, American Chairs: Queen Anne and Chippendale (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972), 127, 186, fig. 156, 246. Joseph K. Ott, The John Brown House Loan Exhibition of Rhode Island Furniture, exh. cat. (Providence: The Rhode Island Historical Society, 1965), 4–5, no. 4. Michael Moses, Master Craftsmen of Newport: The Townsends and Goddards (Tenafly, N.J.: MMI Americana Press, 1984), 274, fig. 7.3. American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, 10 vols. (Washington, D.C.: Highland House Publishers, 1957–89), vol. 6, p. 1650, P4768. Ralph E. Carpenter, Jr., "Mowbra Hall and a Collection of Period Rooms: Part I," Connoisseur 180 (June 1972): 85, fig. 8.