From: Joseph K. Ott, The John Brown House Loan Exhibition of Rhode Island Furniture, (Providence, R.I.: The Rhode Island Historical Society, 1965), 16, cat. 16
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Side chairs, set of four |
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Object numberRIF426 |
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MakerMaker, attributed to Robert Sterry Burrough, 17731844 |
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Dimensions38 1/2 × 20 1/4 × 18 1/2 in. (97.79 × 51.435 × 46.99 cm) |
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Date17951805 |
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Current locationPrivate Collection |
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GeographyMade in Providence, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumBirch (primary); white pine (corner blocks) |
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Inscriptions"Made by/Robert S. Burrou [torn]/ [illegible]" in ink on a paper label with red borders with canted corners glued inside a seat rail |
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ProvenanceRobert Sterry Burrough (17731844), Providence, Rhode Island; by descent to his son, Robert S. Burrough, Providence; by descent to his daughter, Mrs. Edward Allen Swain (née Martha Burrough), Pomfret, Connecticut; by descent to her son, Leonard Swain (born 1891), Pomfret; by descent to his daughter Edith (Dede) Swain Bullock |
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Associated namesMrs. Leonard SwainRobert Sterry Burrough Robert S. Burrough, Jr. Martha H. Walker Martha Burrough Leonard Swain Edward Allen Swain |
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See also |
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BibliographyEleanore Bradford Monahon, "Providence Cabinetmakers of the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries," Antiques 87, no. 5 (May 1965): 574, fig. 2.Joseph K. Ott, The John Brown House Loan Exhibition of Rhode Island Furniture, exh. cat. (Providence: The Rhode Island Historical Society, 1965), 1617, no. 16, ill. Patricia E. Kane et al., Art and Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 16501830, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2016), 8586, 421n6, fig. 20. |