id: 153752 accession number: 1987.53 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1987.53 updated: 2022-09-10 11:01:46.731000 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 title in original language: series: series in original language: 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 copyright: --- culture: America, New York, NY, 19th century technique: rosewood inlaid with other woods and bone department: Decorative Art and Design collection: Furniture type: Furniture and woodwork find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- 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. --- measurements: Overall: 76.5 x 122 x 76.2 cm (30 1/8 x 48 1/16 x 30 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Colonel Elverson, Philadelphia. Private collection, Pennsylvania. (Sotheby's, 13 September 1986, no. 131). (Margot Johnson, Inc., New York). date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: The general form of this table is based on 19th-century English pieces that are variously described as modern Gothic or Eastlakian. They tend to be rectilinear with incised ornament, and are often, as here, gilded. Combined with this form are decorative elements of Japanese derivation--the carved panel of the stretcher and the inlaid medallions on the frieze beneath the top. The elaborate marquetry, or inlay, of the top includes motifs of classical origin. The top was perhaps made in France and imported to America to be used on furniture made here. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1987.53/1987.53_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1987.53/1987.53_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1987.53/1987.53_full.tif