An important American Aesthetic painted and ebonized cabinet. Herter Brothers, New York, circa 1880
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Property of a New York private collector
An important American Aesthetic inlaid, polychromed and ebonized cabinet
Herter Brothers, New York, circa 1880
The stepped rectangular top with pierced brass gallery and two raised mirrored panels over an inlaid flowering vine frieze, over two central cupboard doors, the left painted with a woman and two children in a field, the other with children at play, a horse at a railed fence to the right, flanked by glazed doors opening to shelves, raised on brass feet.
height 53in (134cm); length 58in (148cm); depth 15in (38cm)
Estimate:
US$ 50,000 - 80,000
£32,000 - 51,000
€37,000 - 60,000

Footnotes

  • An identical cabinet but with doors painted with different subject matter from the Estate of Theresa Brewer, sold Sotheby's New York, June 12, 2009, lot 64.

    Literature:
    cf. For a related Herter cabinet commissioned for the George Beale Sloan residence, Oswego, New York, as well as a closely related example by James Lamb, Manchester, see Katherine Howe, Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen and Catherine Hoover Voorsanger, Herter Brothers - Furniture and Interiors for a Gilded Age, Harry Abrams, New York, 1994, pp. 163-164.

    Provenance:
    Associated Artists, LLC, Southport, Connecticut

Category: Furniture / European Furniture and Works of Art

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