The Eddy Family Queen Anne Walnut and Maple Easy Chair

Possibly by Job Townsend (1699-1765), Newport, Rhode Island, Circa 1750

Height 47 x width 33 x depth 21 inches.

Provenance:

By descent through the Eddy Family, Warren, Rhode Island,

Collection of Philip Flayderman, Boston, Massachusetts,

Sold by American Arts Association Anderson Galleries, New York, New York, The Philip Flayderman Collection-Historic American Furniture, January 2-4, 1930, lot 493,

American Arts Association Anderson Galleries, Inc., New York, New York, January 9, 1932, lot 81,

Israel Sack, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, November 23, 1932,

E. Ross (1894-1971), and Bessie S. Millhiser (1895-1987), Richmond, Virginia,

Kenneth (1924-2021) and Katherine Millhiser (b. 1937), Piedmont, California.

Literature:

"American Art Association-Anderson Galleries, Inc., advertisement," The Magazine Antiques, 16, no. 6 (December 1929), pg. 451.

"Furniture Items from the Year's Sales," The Magazine Antiques, 17, no. 4 (April 1930), pg. 329, fig. 2.

"100 Important American Antiques" auction catalogue of 1932, pl. 80.

Albert Sack, Fine Points of Furniture: Early American (New York: Crown Publishers, 1950), pg. 63, ill.

Albert Sack, Israel Sack, a Record of Service: 1903-1953 (1954), pgs. 36-37,

Patricia Kane, Art & Industry in Early America Rhode Island Furniture, 1650-1830 (Yale

University Press, 2016), pgs. 254-256.

Michael Moses, Master Craftsmen of Newport: The Townsends and Goddards (Tenafly, New Jersey: MMI Americana Press, 1984), pgs. 248, 256, fig. 6.2a.

Joan Barzilay Freund and Leigh Keno, "The Making and Marketing of Boston Seating Furniture in the Late Baroque Style," American Furniture (1998), pgs. 33–34, fig. 53.

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), 5n15, 257n2.

Rhode Island Furniture Archives (RIF755).