A WILLIAM AND MARY MAPLE AND ASH CORNER CHAIR

According to family tradition as published in 1942 (see Literature above), the chair was a gift from a colonial governor of Rhode Island to a Barnabas Horton in 1720. While this history cannot be proven, the chair resembles several slat-back corner chairs made in eighteenth-century Rhode Island (see the Rhode Island Furniture Archive at the Yale University Art Gallery, RIF4079, RIF6618 and RIF4080). For a virtually identical example, see Tillou Gallery, Inc., advertisement, The Magazine Antiques (March 1970), p. 295.