id:			148728
accession number:	1976.170
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1976.170
updated:		2024-03-26 01:59:39.560000

Chest-on-Chest, c. 1800. America, Rhode Island, Providence, early 19th Century. Mahogany; overall: 235 x 108.6 x 62.3 cm (92 1/2 x 42 3/4 x 24 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Moselle Taylor Meals 1976.170

title:				Chest-on-Chest
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creation date:			c. 1800
creation date earliest:		1795
creation date latest:		1805
current location:		204 Colonial American
creditline:			Gift of Moselle Taylor Meals
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culture:	America, Rhode Island, Providence, early 19th Century
technique:	mahogany
department:	Decorative Art and Design
collection:	Furniture
type:		Furniture and woodwork
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measurements: Overall: 235 x 108.6 x 62.3 cm (92 1/2 x 42 3/4 x 24 1/2 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review, 1976
	opening date:   1977-02-01T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review, 1976</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 1-March 6, 1977).

	title:		Art and Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 1650-1830
	opening date:   2016-08-19T00:00:00
	<i>Art and Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 1650-1830</i>. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT (organizer) (August 19, 2016-January 8, 2017).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT (8/19/2016 – 1/8/2017):  "Art and Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 1650-1830"', 'opening_date': '2016-08-19T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Moselle Taylor Meals, Beachwood (purchased at auction in 1972).
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	Advertised at auction by Florene Maine in 1969.
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	Sold by Honorable Mrs. C.D.L. Pepys, Newport and England.
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	Inherited from Sophia Augusta Brown Sherman (Mrs. Watts Sherman), Newport and New York.
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CITATIONS

	Kane, Patricia E. <em>Art &amp; Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 1650-1830.</em> New Haven, CT: Yale University Art Gallery, 2016.
	page number: 	Reproduced: P. 321, no. 63
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