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Easy chair

Object number

RIF353

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

47 1/2 × 35 × 30 in. (120.65 × 88.9 × 76.2 cm)

Date

1740–60

Current location

Unknown

Geography

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

Medium

Maple

Style

Queen Anne

Provenance

By descent in the Brown family, Providence, Rhode Island, before 1976. Israel Sack, Inc., New York, 1976

Associated names

Descendants of John Brown
Israel Sack, Inc.

Bibliography

American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, 10 vols. (Washington, D.C.: Highland House Publishers, 1957–1989), vol. 5, p. 1303, no. P4271, ill.