Side Chair
- Date
- c. 1790–1800
- Medium
- mahogany
- Dimensions
- Overall: 90.8 x 48.3 x 52.1 cm (35 3/4 x 19 x 20 1/2 in.)
- Form
- Chair
- Origin
- America
- Culture
- America, Massachusetts, Boston, late 18th Century
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession
- 1986.208.1
- Credit line
- Gift of Gordon D. Meals and Jean F. Meals in memory of Moselle T. Meals
Chairs of this or similar design seem to have been made by several Boston cabinetmakers. This chair may have belonged to one or more members of the distinguished Derby family or West family-or both-of nearby Salem, Massachusetts.