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Side chair

Object number

RIF430

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

38 1/2 × 17 × 20 in. (97.79 × 43.18 × 50.8 cm) seat: 17 in. (43.18 cm)

Date

1740–60

Current location

Unknown

Geography

Probably made in Massachusetts, formerly said to have been made in Newport, Rhode Island
(view a map of Rhode Island)

Medium

Walnut

Provenance

Israel Sack, Inc., New York, 1977

Associated names

Israel Sack, Inc.

See also

Bibliography

John T. Kirk, American Furniture and the British Tradition to 1830 (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982), 244, no. 807, ill.
American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, 10 vols. (Washington, D.C.: Highland House Publishers, 1957–89), vol. 6, p. 1470, no. P4483, ill.