id: 150509
accession number: 1981.65
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Pier Table, c. 1829–35. Joseph Meeks and Sons (American). Mahogany; marble; overall: 91.5 x 105.4 x 57.1 cm (36 x 41 1/2 x 22 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. R. Livingston Ireland 1981.65
title: Pier Table
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creation date: c. 1829–35
creation date earliest: 1824
creation date latest: 1840
current location: 205 Federal American
creditline: Gift of Mrs. R. Livingston Ireland
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culture: America, New York
technique: mahogany; marble
department: Decorative Art and Design
collection: Furniture
type: Furniture and woodwork
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CREATORS
* Joseph Meeks and Sons (American) - artist
A leading firm of New York furniture makers active from 1797 to 1868. In 1833 they issued an advertisment illustrating forty-one pieces of furniture, most in a heavy but generally simplified version of the English Regency style--pier-tables with columns and lion-paw feet, dining table with central supports, etc.--some of them adapted from the pattern books of G. Smith. In the 1840s they were making pieces in the Gothic Revival style, including a set of walnut chairs for the White House (1846-47). Later they turned to the Neo-Rococo and produced laminated rosewood furniture similar to that of J. H. Belter. From 1835 they had an agency in New Orleans and they are said to have supplied furniture throughout the U. S.
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measurements: Overall: 91.5 x 105.4 x 57.1 cm (36 x 41 1/2 x 22 1/2 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: The Year in Review for 1981
opening date: 1982-02-17T05:00:00
The Year in Review for 1981. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
Ireland family, New York (?); R. Livingston Ireland, Cleveland.
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Voorsanger, Catherine Hoover, and John K. Howat. Art and the Empire City: New York, 1825-1861. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 294-295, fig. 240
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Pollack, Jodi. 2002. “The Meeks Cabinet Making Firm in New York City: Part I, 1797-1835.” Magazine Antiques 161, no. 5 (May 2002): 102–111.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 107, pl. IX, IXa
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