Decorative Arts & Design
Chair
Furniture
Details
- Author / creator
- Herter Brothers (American)
- Object type
- Furniture
- Date or period
- c. 1880
- Dimensions summary
- Overall: 84.5 × 40.7 × 46 cm
- Maker or workshop
- Herter Brothers
- Period / style
- Historicism
- Place of origin
- America
- Acquisition method
- Purchase
- Credit line
- Purchased with the Ashcombe City Council acquisitions budget, 1982
About this object
In the 1870s, the furniture made by the Herter firm was influenced by Japanese style, as seen in the marquetry at the top of this chair. It closely resembles one that was supplied for use in the Red Room of the White House in the redecoration of 1882–83.
Materials and technique
Ebonized cherry and other woods
