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Herter Brothers

Side Chair

Now On View

Description

Maker

Herter Brothers (American, 1864-1906)

Title

Side Chair

Year

1877-1879

Medium

Ebonized cherry with light wood inlay

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Ebonized cherry with light wood inlay

Materials

ebonized cherry, light wood inlay, silk

Dimensions

96.5 x 45.7 x 45.7 cm (38 x 18 x 18 inches)

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Mary B. Jackson Fund

Object Number

1990.057

Type

Furniture

Exhibition History

18th and 19th-Century American Galleries

Jun 19, 2015

Charles Pendleton House

Jan 02, 2015

Making It In America

Oct 11, 2013 – Feb 09, 2014

Label copy

Eastern aesthetics and Western form are united in this chair, with ebonized cherry resembling Japanese lacquer and a stylized floral design of intricate inlays, distinctive of Herter Brothers’ furniture. Founded by German immigrants Gustav and Christian Herter, Herter Brothers was associated with the incorporation of Japanese decorative arts in American design in the 1880s. The firm quickly made a name for itself, garnering impressive commissions such as designing William Henry Vanderbilt's Fifth Avenue mansion, decorating the White House Red Room for Ulysses S. Grant, and renovating the White House East Room for Theodore Roosevelt.

Dress, Art, and Society

1750-1890

Sep 13, 1996 – Jan 05, 1997

Romanticism and Revival

Nineteenth-Century American Art from the Permanent Collection

Dec 04, 1992 – Jun 26, 1993

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Herter Brothers (American, 1864-1906)

Side Chair, 1877-1879

Ebonized cherry with light wood inlay

96.5 x 45.7 x 45.7 cm (38 x 18 x 18 inches)

Mary B. Jackson Fund 1990.057

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