Lot 9

AN AESTHETIC MOVEMENT PARCEL-GILT, PART-EBONIZED, SILVER, ORMOLU AND ONYX- MOUNTED ROSEWOOD SIDEBOARD AND OVER-MIRROR

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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF RICHARD J. SCHWARTZ

AN AESTHETIC MOVEMENT PARCEL-GILT, PART-EBONIZED, SILVER, ORMOLU AND ONYX- MOUNTED ROSEWOOD SIDEBOARD AND OVER-MIRROR

ATTRIBUTED TO HERTER BROTHERS (W. 1864–1906), NEW YORK, CIRCA 1881

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AN AESTHETIC MOVEMENT PARCEL-GILT, PART-EBONIZED, SILVER, ORMOLU AND ONYX- MOUNTED ROSEWOOD SIDEBOARD AND OVER-MIRROR
ATTRIBUTED TO HERTER BROTHERS (W. 1864–1906), NEW YORK, CIRCA 1881
bears stencils 65147 SINCLAIR; some locks stamped G. Bayer/ N.Y. Patd June 14, 1881
99 in. high, 101 in. wide, 24 in. deep

Provenance

Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York, 1989

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Similar floral carving on the cabinet's lower doors is seen on a pair of side chairs attributed to Herter Brothers in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. See Katherine S. Howe, Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen and Catherine Hoover Voorsanger, Herter Brothers: Furniture and Interiors for a Gilded Age (New York, 1994), pp. 193-194, 222, cat. 33.

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