id: 153397 accession number: 1986.81 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1986.81 updated: 2022-10-29 15:41:11.567000 Side Chair, c. 1775. Eliphalet Chapin (American, 1741–1807). Cherry; overall: 96.8 x 59.1 x 51.1 cm (38 1/8 x 23 1/4 x 20 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1986.81 title: Side Chair title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1775 creation date earliest: 1770 creation date latest: 1780 current location: creditline: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund copyright: --- culture: America, Connecticut, East Windsor, 18th century technique: cherry department: Decorative Art and Design collection: Furniture type: Furniture and woodwork find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Eliphalet Chapin (American, 1741–1807) - fabricated by --- measurements: Overall: 96.8 x 59.1 x 51.1 cm (38 1/8 x 23 1/4 x 20 1/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review for 1986 opening date: 1987-02-04T05:00:00 Year in Review for 1986. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 4-March 15, 1987). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Ebenezer Grant (1706-1797), East Windsor, CT; his daughter Anne, wife of Rev. Marsh, Wethersfield, CT; their daughter Mary Marsh, wife of William Watson; to their daughter Lydia Marsh Watson (1786-1880); to her niece Sarah (Watson) Dana (1814-1902), wife of Richard Henry Dana, Jr; hence by descent to owners in 1986; but geneology quoted in Sotheby cat. confusing and in part incorrect. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: 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 descendents until 1986. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1986.81/1986.81_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1986.81/1986.81_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1986.81/1986.81_full.tif