Dining Chair
Maker
Herter Brothers
(American, 1863 - 1905)
ClassificationsDECORATIVE ARTS
Date1881-1882
Mediumoak, with brass and parcel-gilt and embossed leather upholstery
Dimensions34 3/4 × 17 1/2 × 18 1/2 in. (88.3 × 44.5 × 47 cm.)
MarkingsMarked with impressed stamp, on underside of one carved element on the proper left rear seat rail “137”
Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Purchased with funds from the Virginia Steele Scott Foundation Acquisition Fund for American Art, the Angeles Attic Museum Fund for Art Acquisitions
Label TextThis exquisitely carved and embellished dining-room chair was part of one of Herter Brothers's most celebrated and high-style commissions for the William H. Vanderbilt house at 640 Fifth Avenue in New York.Status
On viewObject number2021.9
Charles Sumner Greene
n.d.
Object number: 000.121.8
Charles Sumner Greene
1905-1906
Object number: 000.121.1
Charles Sumner Greene
ca. 1907
Object number: 90.10
