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	Easy chair
	Object number RIF317
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions 48 1/4 � 33 3/4 � 26 1/4 in. (122.555 � 85.725 � 66.675 cm)
	Date 1740–1760
	Current location Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
	Geography Made in Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Soft maple (primary); soft maple (seat rails and arm supports); eastern white pine (lower outside portion of C-scroll); elm (arm stiles)
	Marks Unknown
	Inscriptions Unknown
	Provenance John S. Walton, Inc., New York; sold to Ima Hogg (1882–1975), Houston, 1960; given to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1960
	Associated names John S. Walton, Inc. Ima Hogg
	Construction The front seat rail is tenoned, with two wood pins, to the side seat rails. The c-scrolled knee brackets are glued and fixed with rosehead nails to the front and side seat rails and glued to the top of the front legs, which end in shod pad feet. Below the seat, the back face of the rear legs curve rearward; the front face is square at the top, then chamfered at the corners, then square again (at its juncture with the side stretcher), then chamfered at the corners. The blocked and turned side stretchers are tenoned into them, with one wood pin, and tenoned, with one wood pin, into the front legs. The legs and stretchers are painted black. Examined by P.E. Kane, August 8, 2013; notes compiled by T.B. Lloyd.
	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), 34, no. F58, ill.