Photo: Courtesy The Art Institute of Chicago, Robert Allerton Fund, 1979.54
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Side chair |
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Object numberRIF78 |
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MakerMaker Unknown |
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Dimensions41 7/8 × 20 3/4 × 16 in. (106.363 × 52.705 × 40.64 cm) |
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Date174060 |
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Current locationArt Institute of Chicago |
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GeographyPossibly made in Newport, Rhode Island, or possibly made in Boston(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumWalnut (primary); pine (glue blocks of seat [original?]) |
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MarksNone |
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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 |
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ProvenanceIsrael 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 |
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Associated namesRalph E. Carpenter, Jr.Israel Sack, Inc. |
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See also |
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BibliographyJudith A. Barter et al., American Arts at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 6364, 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, 1317, charts IIV, 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), 45, 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, 195789), 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. |