Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Va., 1930-158 Click the image to enlarge	Side chair
	Object number RIF179
	Maker Maker Unknown Maker, formerly attributed to John Goddard, American, 1723?1785
	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 (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Walnut (primary); maple (secondary and slip seat frame)
	Marks "VI" cut into inside of front seat rail; "V" cut into slip-seat frame.
	Style Queen Anne
	Provenance Louis Guerineau Myers (1874–1932), New York, by 1929. The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Virginia
	Associated names Louis Guerineau Myers
	Bibliography Loan Exhibition of Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth-Century Furniture and Glass, exh. cat. (New York: American Art Galleries, 1929), n.p., no. 569, ill. Marion Day Iverson, The American Chair 1630-1890 (New York: Hastings House Publishers, 1957), 77, fig. 57. Milo M. Naeve, "The American Furniture," Antiques 95, no. 1 (January 1969): 132, ill. Barry A. Greenlaw, New England Furniture at Williamsburg (Williamsburg, Va.: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Virginia, 1974), 60-61, no. 51, 1930-158, ill.

Side chair