ID 964841
Lot 33 | AN AMERICAN AESTHETIC MOVEMENT BRASS-INLAID AND EBONIZED CHERRYWOOD CABINET
Estimate value
$ 20 000 – 30 000
ATTRIBUTED TO HERTER BROTHERS (W. 1864-1906), NEW YORK, CIRCA 1880
Appears to retain its original brasses and silk velvet lining shelves; the reverse inscribed in chalk 148, and inscribed in graphite 84/5718, and with further indistinct chalk inscriptions
47 ¾ in. (121.3 cm.) high, 94 in. (238.8 cm.) wide, 15 ½ in. (39.4 cm.) deep
Provenance
Probably John Jacob Astor III (1822-1890), New York and Newport, Rhode Island.
Probably William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor (1848–1919), New York and Hever Castle, Kent, England.
Christopher Hodsoll, London.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above in 1996.
Literature
C. Gene and M. Whiteway, Nineteenth-Century Design: From Pugin to Mackintosh, New York, 1994, p. 181, pl. 226.
Special notice
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| Manufactur: | Herter Brothers |
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| Applied technique: | Ebonising |
| Medium: | Wood |
| Art style: | Aestheticism |
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Cupboards |
| Manufactur: | Herter Brothers |
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| Applied technique: | Ebonising |
| Medium: | Wood |
| Art style: | Aestheticism |
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Cupboards |
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