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Side Chair
The collection record classifies this work as furniture and woodwork. It is dated c. 1775. Recorded culture or place: America, Connecticut, East Windsor, 18th century.
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- Museum title
- Side Chair
- Date
- c. 1775
- Culture / origin
- America, Connecticut, East Windsor, 18th century
- Materials and technique
- cherry
- Dimensions
- Overall: 96.8 x 59.1 x 51.1 cm (38 1/8 x 23 1/4 x 20 1/8 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Eliphalet Chapin (American, 1741–1807)
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1986.81
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
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 descendants until 1986.
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