Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Bayou Bend Collection, Gift of Miss Ima Hogg Click the image to enlarge	Side chair
	Object number RIF235
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions 38 1/8 � 21 1/8 � 19 in. (96.838 � 53.658 � 48.26 cm)
	Date 1780–1800
	Current location Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
	Geography Made in Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany (primary); soft maple (secondary)
	Provenance Maxim Karolik (1893–1963), Boston, and Newport, Rhode Island; sold to Ima Hogg (1882–1975), Houston, 1957; given to Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1969
	Associated names Maxim Karolik Ima Hogg
	Construction The flat, double-serpentine crest rail has scrolling "ears" and centers an arched reserve decorated with incised lines enclosing punched dots. The flat-fronted, slightly flaring stiles are cut at an angle where they are tenoned, and wood-pinned to the crest rail. The stiles are rounded in the back, continuous with the rear legs, and square from the top of the seat frame downward. The straight, openwork strapwork splat has incised and carved decoration and is tenoned into the bottom of the crest rail and into the top of the molded shoe, which is nailed with brads to the rear rail and does not overhang the seat frame. The rear rail is tenoned into the rear legs with one pin, as is the front rail to the front legs, and the side rails to the front legs. The side rails are tenoned to the rear legs with two pins each; the proper right side rail contains an extra wood pin. The rear corners of the seat frame contain triangular blocks, once attached with nails, now with screws. The rectilinear arched-top and side and rear stretchers are set flush with their respective legs? outside faces, and tenoned to them without wood pins. The inside corners of the rear legs are chamfered slightly, those of the front legs more deeply. The front legs are stop-fluted on their outside faces. Examined by P.E. Kane, May 26, 2004; notes compiled by T.B. Lloyd
	See also RIF427 RIF584 RIF843 RIF1312 RIF1415 RIF1440 RIF1449 RIF1452 RIF2037 RIF2051 RIF2886 RIF3039 RIF3328 RIF3683 RIF3684 RIF3686 RIF3798 RIF4004 RIF4038 RIF4223 RIF4380 RIF4381 RIF4383 RIF4572 RIF4778 RIF4874 RIF4990 RIF5568 RIF5791 RIF6534 RIF6573 RIF6623
	Bibliography David B. Warren et al., American Decorative Arts and Paintings in the Bayou Bend Collection, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1998), 49–50, no. F83, ill. David B. Warren, Bayou Bend: American Furniture, Paintings, and Silver from the Bayou Bend Collection (Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1975), 45, no. 75. Brock Jobe and Myrna Kaye, New England Furniture: The Colonial Era (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984), 410, footnote 2.