The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 25, 2024
Side Chair
c. 1775
fabricated by
(American, 1741–1807)
Overall: 96.8 x 59.1 x 51.1 cm (38 1/8 x 23 1/4 x 20 1/8 in.)
Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1986.81
Location: not on view
Description
Before becoming one of the best known Connecticut furniture makers of the late 1700s, Eliphalet Chapin worked in New York City and Philadelphia. His furniture shows evidence of that experience. For example, the back of this chair has a splat design found on New York pieces, while the untapered rear legs and the shell carving on the crest rail are typical of Philadelphia workmanship. The use of cherry, however, is characteristic of Connecticut furniture. This chair comes from a set recorded in Chapin's account book as having been supplied to Ebenezer Grant to form part of the dowry of his daughter Anne, who married the Reverend John Marsh of Wethersfield, Connecticut, on December 6, 1775. The set was owned by their descendents until 1986.- Ebenezer Grant (1706-1797), East Windsor, CT; his daughter Anne, wife of Rev. Marsh, Wethersfield, CT; their daughter Mary Marsh, wife of William Watson; to their daughter Lydia Marsh Watson (1786-1880); to her niece Sarah (Watson) Dana (1814-1902), wife of Richard Henry Dana, Jr; hence by descent to owners in 1986; but geneology quoted in Sotheby cat. confusing and in part incorrect.
- Year in Review for 1986. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 4-March 15, 1987).
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