Chair
Herter Brothers (American)
c. 1880
- Medium
- ebonized cherry and other woods
- Classification
- Furniture and woodwork
- Dimensions
- Overall: 84.5 x 40.7 x 46 cm (33 1/4 x 16 x 18 1/8 in.)
- Culture
- America, New York
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Decorative Art and Design
- Credit line
- Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
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.
