Cleveland Museum of Art

Side Chair

Date

c. 1760

Medium

mahogany

Culture

America, New York

Department

Decorative Art and Design

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

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.

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