Made by Herter Brothers / Chair / 1877-1879

Made by Herter Brothers
Chair
1877-1879
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Creator Name: Herter Brothers
Creator Role: Maker
Creator Dates/Places: 1864-1906
Creator Name-CRT: Made by Herter Brothers
Title: Chair
Title Type: Object name
View: Full View
Creation Start Date: 1877
Creation End Date: 1879
Creation Date: 1877-1879
Object Type: Decorative Arts and Utilitarian Objects
Classification Term: Furniture
Materials and Techniques: Ebonized cherry, marquetry of lighter woods, gilding
Dimensions: 37 5/16 x 17 1/16 x 18 1/8 in. (94.8 x 43.3 x 46.0 cm)
AMICA Contributor: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Owner Location: New York, New York, USA
ID Number: 1992.80
Credit Line: Purchase, Barrie A. and Deedee Wigmore Foundation Gift, 1992
Rights: http://www.metmuseum.org/
Context:

The slender proportions and attenuated stiles of this chair proclaim an awareness of progressive British art furniture, especially that of E. W. Godwin, the British architect and originator of the so-called Anglo-Japanese style. It is often compared with a similar chair designed by H. W. Batley and displayed by the British firm Collinson & Lock at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition of 1876. Herter Brothers' interpretation, with a panel of carved flowers across the back and floating blossoms in marquetry on the crest rail, is distinctly its own, however. Lightweight and linear in conception, ebonized to allude to Japanese lacquer, with ring-turned legs, repeated spindles, and elongated uprights, these chairs abstain from specific European historical references in favor of a new aesthetic derived, at least in spirit, from Japanese decorative arts and architecture. Ebonized chairs such as this were typically made in pairs by the firm for use in conjunction with bedroom suites. The mate to this chair is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The showcover is a replacement and replicates documented fabric designed by Bruce J. Talbert.

AMICA ID: MMA_.1992.80
AMICA Library Year: 2000
Media Metadata Rights: Copyright The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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