Detail View: The AMICA Library: Side Chair

AMICA ID: 
CMA_.1988.32
AMICA Library Year: 
1999
Object Type: 
Decorative Arts and Utilitarian Objects
Creator Nationality: 
North American; American
Creator Dates/Places: 
America (New York), 18th century
Creator Name-CRT: 
America (New York), 18th century
Title: 
Side Chair
Title Type: 
Primary
View: 
Full View
Creation Date: 
c. 1760
Creation Start Date: 
1755
Creation End Date: 
1765
Materials and Techniques: 
mahogany
Classification Term: 
Furniture
Classification Term: 
Woodwork
Dimensions: 
Overall: 105.4cm x 57.2cm x 54.3cm
AMICA Contributor: 
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Owner Location: 
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
ID Number: 
1988.32
Credit Line: 
Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
Inscriptions: 
pieced splat with initials of first owners: R M & L; seat cover with initials of second owner: C L G; Roman numeral VI incised on inner surface of rear seat rail.
Rights: 
Provenance: 
Robert (1718-1775) and Margaret Beekman (1724-1800) Livingston of Clermont; their daughter Catherine Livingston Garreston (1752-1849; her daughter Mary Rutherford Garreston (d. 1879); several generations of the Tillotson Wainwright family.
Context: 
Chairs with their splats pierced with a decorative monogram are rare in eighteenth-century English furniture, and this chair is part of a unique American set. The initials "R.M.L." are those of Robert (1718-1775) and Margaret Beekman (1724-1800) Livingston of Clemont, a house on the Hudson River north of New York City.
Related Image Identifier Link: 
CMA_.1988.32.tif