Description
A Herter Brothers ebonised cherry wood cabinet, with glazed central doors, flanked with open shelves and carved Chinese brackets, below a glazed central cabinet with carved pillars, inlaid with abalone shell frieze of stylised flowers, on claw feet stamped Herter Bros to back, 168cm wide, 136cm. high, 38cm. deep.
Literature
Charlotte Gere & Michael Whiteway 19th Century Design from Pugin to Mackintosh Wiedenfeld & Nicolson, page 181 plate 226 for an ebonised cabinet similar.
In Pursuit of Beauty Americans and the Aesthetic Movement Metropolitan Museum of Art, page 168 figure 5.27 for a comparable wardrobe.
Robert Judson Clark The Arts and Crafts Movement in America 1876-1916, Princeton 21st October-17th December 1972, page 16 catalogue number 3 for a comparable table.
