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Upholstered armchair

Object number

RIF378

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

Height: 42 1/4 in. (107.315 cm) Width: 28 in. (71.12 cm) Height, to seat rail: 14 1/2 in. (36.83 cm)

Date

1760–80

Current location

Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library

Geography

Made in Newport, Rhode Island, or made in Providence, Rhode Island
(view a map of Rhode Island)

Medium

Mahogany (primary); pine, chestnut, birch and maple (secondary)

Marks

None

Inscriptions

Unknown

Provenance

John Brown (1736–1803), Providence, Rhode Island; by inheritance to his daughter, Sarah "Sally" Brown Herreshoff (1773–1846), Bristol, Rhode Island; by descent to her son, Charles Frederick Herreshoff III (1809–1888) and his wife, Julia Ann Lewis (1811–1901), Bristol, Rhode Island; by descent to their daughter, Caroline Louisa Herreshoff (1837–1924), Bristol, Rhode Island; by inheritance 1924 to her grandson, Wescote Herreshoff Chesebrough (1908–1979), Providence, Rhode Island; consigned to Gustave J. S. White, Inc. auction, Newport, Rhode Island, July 15, 1974; sold to John S. Walton, Inc., New York; sold to Elaine M. Wilde, Belmont, Massachusetts; consigned to Sotheby's, New York, January 21–22, 2000, lot 709 [unsold]; gift to Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library, Delaware, 2005

Associated names

John S. Walton, Inc.
Westcote Herreshoff Chesebrough
Gustave J. S. White, Inc.
Charles Frederick Herreshoff III
John Brown
Caroline Louisa Herreshoff III
Sarah "Sally" Brown Herreshoff
Elaine M. Wilde
Sotheby's

See also

Bibliography

Gustave J. S. White, Inc., Newport, R.I., Property of Westcote Herreshoff Chesebrough at "Wakehurst," Ochre Point Avenue, Newport, sale cat. (July 15, 1974), ill.
"Gustave J. S. White, Inc., advertisement," Antiques 105, no. 6 (June 1974): 1265, ill.
Sotheby's, New York, Important Americana, sale cat. (January 21–22, 2000), 384, lot 709.