About the Artwork
Chair
ca. 1880
Herter Brothers
1865-1905
American
Unknown
Ebonized cherry and inlaid fruit wood
Overall: 33 × 16 × 18 inches (83.8 × 40.6 × 45.7 cm)
Furniture
American Art before 1950
Founders Society Purchase, Beatrice W. Rogers Fund
1990.13
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Markings
Inscribed, under left decorative rail: 3631
Provenance
until 1988, un-named antique shop (Grand Falls, Montana, USA)
1988-1989, private collector 1989, Butterfield and Butterfield
1989-1990, Peter Hill
1990-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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"In Pursuit of Beauty: Americans and the Aesthetic Movement." New York, 1986.
"American Decorative Arts Acquisitions 1985-2005." Bulletin of the DIA 81, 1-2 (2007): p. 60.
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Herter Brothers, Chair, ca. 1880, ebonized cherry and inlaid fruit wood. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Beatrice W. Rogers Fund, 1990.13.
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