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Side chair

Object number

RIF142

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

39 3/4 × 21 3/4 × 20 1/2 in. (100.965 × 55.245 × 52.07 cm)

Date

1740–60

Current location

Private Collection

Geography

Probably made in Massachusetts, formerly said to have been made in Newport, Rhode Island
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Medium

Walnut (primary); maple (slip seat frame)

Provenance

Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Kreiselman, Washington, D.C. Bernard and S. Dean Levy, Inc., New York, 1983

Associated names

Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Kreiselman
Bernard and S. Dean Levy, Inc.

Bibliography

Helen Comstock, "Paintings and Antiques in the Homes of American Collectors," Antiques 62, no. 4 (October 1952): 300–301, ill.
Wendy A. Cooper, "The Kaufman Collection," Antiques 179, no. 3 (May–June 2012): 111, fig. 6.