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Article: A pair of distinctive chairs from Newport, Rhode Island.
- Article from:
- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- January 1, 1994
- Author:
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The pair of late eighteenth-century Newport chairs shown in Plates I and II was described as having descended in the Bangs family of Newport when they were bought in 1959 by the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum in Winterthur, Delaware. The provenance was based on information provided in 1951 by Ruth Montague Sturgis, the last Bangs family descendant to own the chairs. A careful reading of the penciled note accompanying the chairs suggests that they descended in the maternal line of Ruth Sturgis's family and did not come into the possession of the Bangs family until late in the nineteenth century. The note reads: This chair is one of a set given to my mother MGE ...
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