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Side Chair

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Type
Decorative arts(Opens in new tab)
Date
ca. 1878-1880
Accession number
2002.15
Attributed
Herter Brothers(Opens in new tab) (American, 1863–1905)
Designer
Henry William Batley(Opens in new tab) (British, 1846–1932)
Dimensions
34 1/2 x 15 1/2 x 17 3/4 in. (87.6 x 39.4 x 45.1 cm.)
Medium
rosewood
Description
A chair with slender spindles and delicate embellishments in Anglo-Japanesque style.
Credit
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Purchased with funds from the Art Collectors' Council
Department
American Art
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View in the Art Museum catalog(Opens in new tab)
This delicate chair, possibly from the workshops of American furniture designers Herter Brothers, reveals the translatlantic nature of Arts & Crafts style. It is based on a design by Henry William Batley of Collinson and Lock, a London firm established in 1870 to manufacture and market "art furniture" on a commercial sale. With its slender spindles and delicate embellishments, it reflects the influence of both the Anglo-Japanesque style made popular by the British Aesthetic designer E.W. Godwin in the 1870s, an example of which is on view nearby (#2005.20), and the popular line of lightwight "Sussex" chairs made by Morris & Company a decade earlier, seen to the left (#2003.14).

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