id: 153752
accession number: 1987.53
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Center Table, c. 1875. Herter Brothers (American). Rosewood inlaid with other woods and bone; overall: 76.5 x 122 x 76.2 cm (30 1/8 x 48 1/16 x 30 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1987.53
title: Center Table
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creation date: c. 1875
creation date earliest: 1870
creation date latest: 1880
current location: 208 American Gilded Age and Realism
creditline: John L. Severance Fund
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culture: America, New York
technique: rosewood inlaid with other woods and bone
department: Decorative Art and Design
collection: Furniture
type: Furniture and woodwork
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CREATORS
* Herter Brothers (American) - designed and made by
Christian Herter (1840-83). Born in Stuttgart. He studied at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris before joining his elder half-brother Gustave (1830-98) in New York in 1860. Gustave had been there since 1848 and had worked for Tiffany before founding his own furniture and decorations firm in 1857. In 1864 Christian returned to Paris to study under Pierre-Victor Gallard (1822-92) and in the early 1870s he was in England. Herter Brothers became a leading New York furniture and decorating business in the 1870s and 1880s, being one of the first to abandon the usual run of historical styles and produce pieces rather similar to those made contemporaneously in England, with a discreet use of oriental motifs. Marquetry furniture like that made for the railroad magnate Jay Gould in 1877-82 or the luxurious gilt and inlaid furniture made for the William H. Vanderbuilt House, NY, c. 1882 is typical of the more extravagant type of aesthetic movement in the US. He employed a large staff of craftsmen and designers, the latter including the architect Charles B. Atwood (1849-95). The firm survived until 1906.
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measurements: Overall: 76.5 x 122 x 76.2 cm (30 1/8 x 48 1/16 x 30 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: The Year in Review for 1987
opening date: 1988-02-24T05:00:00
The Year in Review for 1987. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 24-April 17, 1988).
title: The Herter Brothers: Furniture and Interiors for a Gilded Age
opening date: 1994-08-21T04:00:00
The Herter Brothers: Furniture and Interiors for a Gilded Age. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (organizer) (August 21-October 22, 1994); High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA (December 13, 1994-February 12, 1995); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (May 10-July 30, 1995).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
Colonel Elverson, Philadelphia. Private collection, Pennsylvania. (Sotheby's, 13 September 1986, no. 131). (Margot Johnson, Inc., New York).
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Piña, Leslie. Furniture in History, 3000 B.C.–2000 A.D. Boston: Prentice Hall, 2010. p. 128.
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Howe, Katherine S. et al. Herter Brothers: Furniture and Interiors for a Gilded Age. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1994.
page number: Cat. 22; pp. 172–3, 221, 224
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Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review for 1987.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 75, no. 2 (February 1988): 30–71.
page number: Reproduced: p. 58; Mentioned: p. 65, no. 22
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25160017
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