A NEO-GRC CARVED AND GILDED ROSEWOOD AND MAPLE BREAKFRONT CABINET

ATTRIBUTED TO GUSTAVE HERTER (1830-1892), NEW YORK CITY, 1865-1880

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A NEO-GRC CARVED AND GILDED ROSEWOOD AND MAPLE BREAKFRONT CABINET
Attributed to Gustave Herter (1830-1892), New York City, 1865-1880
With a carved and gilded palmette flanked by two carved pineapple finials on square plinths above a scrolled backboard inlaid with green and white faux-malachite insets and decorated with gilt-incised line ornament throughout terminating at each side in a carved hairy paw, all fronted by a centered platform over a similarly decorated molded and stepped case fitted with one drawer and flanked by partially stop-fluted panels above a tripartite base with three panelled doors, the two outer inset with green and white faux-marble plaques surrounded by gilt-incised ornament and flanked by anthemion-carved pilasters, the center outset and similarly decorated and centering a bronze plaque of a woman preparing to bathe, all over a conforming molded base, on carved platform feet
65in. high, 61in. wide, 20in. deep

拍品專文

Boldly incorporating carved, incised, gilded, applied bronze and decoration, the cabinet offered here is closely related to a cabinet branded by Gustave Herter (1830-1892) illustrated in Voorsanger, "Gustave Herter, cabinetmaker and decorator," Antiques (May 1995), pl. V, pp. 744-745. The branded example has a similar form but differs from this cabinet by lacking the elaborate splashboard, canted corners and leaf-carved feet. Furthermore, both cabinets were originally adorned with similuated stonework; the cabinet offered here retains its faux malachite plaques while the branded example now bears lapis lazuli applied panels that replace a light-blue composition material.