Courtesy of Hirschl & Adler Galleries, photograph by Eric W. Baumgartner

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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

Status

On view

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.

Object number2021.9