Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn. Click the image to enlarge	Side chairs, pair
	Object number RIF434
	Maker Maker Unknown Maker, formerly attributed to John Goddard, American, 1723?1785
	Dimensions 37 � 21 � 17 1/2 in. (93.98 � 53.34 � 44.45 cm) Seat height: 19 in. (48.26 cm)
	Date 1750–70
	Current location Unknown
	Geography Made in Newport, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Walnut (primary); maple (secondary)
	Marks None
	Inscriptions Brass plate on chairs state it was owned by Henry Bull, Governor of Rhode Island in 1685 and 1690
	Style Queen Anne
	Provenance Probably Henry Bull (1687–1771), Newport, Rhode Island. Vernon family, Newport, Rhode Island. Mrs. Henry V. Weil, New York, 1947. Mr. and Mrs. Vincent D. Andrus, Greenwich, Connecticut; Bernard and S. Dean Levy, Inc., New York, 2004. Jill and Mickey Baten, New York; consigned to Northeast Auctions, Hampton and Portsmouth, New Hampshire, August 15, 2015, lot 507
	Associated names Henry Bull Vernon family Henry V. Weil Vincent D. Andrus Vera Andrus Bernard and S. Dean Levy, Inc. Jill Baten Mickey Baten Northeast Auctions
	Related objects RIF1219
	Bibliography Ralph E. Carpenter, Jr., The Arts and Crafts of Newport, Rhode Island, 1640–1820 (Newport, R.I.: Preservation Society of Newport County, 1954), 32, no. 6, ill. "Bernard and S. Dean Levy, Inc., advertisement," Antiques and the Arts Weekly (January 9, 2004): 19, ill. Selections from the Collection of Vincent Dyckman Andrus, exh. cat. (New York: Bernard and S. Dean Levy, Inc., January 2004), 20, ill. Clayton Pennington, "Baten, Blum, and a Bevy of Birds," Maine Antique Digest (October 2015): 37-A, ill. Northeast Auctions, Portsmouth, N.H., The Jill and Mickey Baten Collection of Important American Furniture, sale cat. (August 15, 2015), 11, lot 507, ill. Patricia E. Kane et al., Art and Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 1650–1830, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2016), 256, 271, 271n3, no. 49, fig. 3.