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Side chair

Object number

RIF179

Maker

Maker, formerly attributed to John Goddard, American, 1723–1785
Maker Unknown

Dimensions

41 × 21 × 17 1/8 in. (104.14 × 53.34 × 43.498 cm)

Date

1740–60

Current location

The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Virginia

Geography

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

Walnut (primary); maple (secondary and slip seat frame)

Marks

"VI" cut into inside of front seat rail; "V" cut into slip-seat frame.

Provenance

Louis Guerineau Myers (1874–1932), New York, by 1929. The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Virginia

Associated names

Louis Guerineau Myers

Bibliography

Barry A. Greenlaw, New England Furniture at Williamsburg (Williamsburg, Va.: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Virginia, 1974), 60-61, no. 51, 1930-158, ill.
Milo M. Naeve, "The American Furniture," Antiques 95, no. 1 (January 1969): 132, ill.
Marion Day Iverson, The American Chair 1630-1890 (New York: Hastings House Publishers, 1957), 77, fig. 57.
Loan Exhibition of Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth-Century Furniture and Glass, exh. cat. (New York: American Art Galleries, 1929), n.p., no. 569, ill.