Decorative arts

Dining Chair

Image not available

Type: Decorative arts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1881-1882
Accession number: 2021.9
Maker: Herter Brothers(Opens in new tab) (American, 1863–1905)
Dimensions: 34 3/4 × 17 1/2 × 18 1/2 in. (88.3 × 44.5 × 47 cm.)
Medium: oak, with brass and parcel-gilt and embossed leather upholstery
Credit: The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Purchased with funds from the Virginia Steele Scott Foundation Acquisition Fund for American Art, the Angeles Attic Museum Fund for Art Acquisitions
Department: American Art
Find out more: View in the Art Museum catalog(Opens in new tab)

Label text

This exquisitely carved and embellished dining-room chair was part of one of Herter Brothers's most celebrated and high-style commissions for the William H. Vanderbilt house at 640 Fifth Avenue in New York.

Dining Chair

You might also be interested in

Husser House Dining Room Chair

Dining host chair for the Laurabelle A. Robinson house

Dining side chair for the Laurabelle A. Robinson house

Dining Out

Chair

Chair