Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Sotheby's, New York Click the image to enlarge	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
	Style Chippendale
	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 Brown Sarah "Sally" Brown Herreshoff Charles Frederick Herreshoff III Caroline Louisa Herreshoff III Westcote Herreshoff Chesebrough Gustave J. S. White, Inc. John S. Walton, Inc. Elaine M. Wilde Sotheby's
	See also RIF3247 RIF3413 RIF4417 RIF5155
	Bibliography "Gustave J. S. White, Inc., advertisement," Antiques 105, no. 6 (June 1974): 1265, ill. 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. Sotheby's, New York, Important Americana, sale cat. (January 21–22, 2000), 384, lot 709.