ATTRIBUTED TO HERTER BROTHERS (W. 1864-1906) NEW YORK CITY, 1878-1885

A cabinet of similar construction, attributed to the Herter Brothers and dated to 1872 or 1873, is in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and is illustrated in Katherine S. Howe, Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, and Catherine Hoover Voorsanger, Herter Brothers: Furniture and Interiors for a Gilded Age (New York, 1994), p. 162. It has identical drawer-pulls, similar gilt incising, and its front legs are linked by an arch. The incised flattened ball feet on this headboard, which are similar to those used on a cabinet branded HERTER BRO'S, now part of a private collection in Montreal, are not seen in Herter's work prior to 1878 (see Howe, et al., ibid., p. 215).