Lot 185
An Important Pair of American Aesthetic Carved Mahogany Side Chairs, c. 1875-1880, attributed to Herter Bros., New York, each with tall tapering finials, incurvate incised crest rail, spindle splat in a square framework, ring-turned stiles, tapering legs joined by stretchers Note: These chairs are identical to a chair pictured in the library of landscape painter and Associated Artists designer Samuel Colman's Rhode Island cottage. The supports, ring turnings and spindles in the chairs are nearly identical to those on ebonized and inlaid chairs by Herter Brothers in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (acc. 93.15) and the Houston Museum of Fine Arts and the Philadelphia Museum of Art (acc. 1928.121-1) respectively. Light and linear in form, the Herter chairs are influenced by Japanese aesthetics and relate closely to oak dining chairs designed in 1869 by William Godwin for Dromore Castle, Limerick County, Ireland and published in William Watts. Art Furniture from Designs by E.W . Godwin, F.S.A. and Others, 1877. Reference: Howe, et. al. Herter Brothers, Furniture and Interiors for a Gilded Age, p. 193-4, fig. 33.
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