id: 150509 accession number: 1981.65 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1981.65 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:47.891000 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 title in original language: series: series in original language: 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 copyright: --- culture: America, New York technique: mahogany; marble department: Decorative Art and Design collection: Furniture type: Furniture and woodwork find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- 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. --- measurements: Overall: 91.5 x 105.4 x 57.1 cm (36 x 41 1/2 x 22 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Ireland family, New York (?); R. Livingston Ireland, Cleveland. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- 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 url: 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 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1981.65/1981.65_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1981.65/1981.65_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1981.65/1981.65_full.tif