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Banister-back side chair

Object number

RIF175

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

40 × 19 × 13 3/4 in. (101.6 × 48.26 × 34.925 cm)

Date

1760–1800

Current location

The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Virginia

Geography

Probably made in Rhode Island
(view a map of Rhode Island)

Medium

Maple and ash

Marks

None

Inscriptions

None

Provenance

Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (née Abigail Greene Aldrich, 1874–1948), New York, and Williamsburg, Virginia; by descent to her son, John D. Rockefeller III (1906–1978), New York and Mount Pleasant, New York; gift of the John D. Rockefeller III Fund, Inc., to The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Virginia, 1996

Associated names

Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller III

See also

Bibliography

Patricia E. Kane et al., Art and Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 1650–1830, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2016), 363, no. 76, fig. 2.