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Side Chair

Attributed (American, 1863 - 1905)
Designer (British, 1846 - 1932)
ClassificationsDECORATIVE ARTS
Dateca. 1878-1880
Mediumrosewood
Dimensions34 1/2 x 15 1/2 x 17 3/4 in. (87.6 x 39.4 x 45.1 cm.)
DescriptionA chair with slender spindles and delicate embellishments in Anglo-Japanesque style.
Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Purchased with funds from the Art Collectors' Council
Label TextThis delicate chair, possibly from the workshops of American furniture designers Herter Brothers, reveals the translatlantic nature of Arts & Crafts style. It is based on a design by Henry William Batley of Collinson and Lock, a London firm established in 1870 to manufacture and market "art furniture" on a commercial sale. With its slender spindles and delicate embellishments, it reflects the influence of both the Anglo-Japanesque style made popular by the British Aesthetic designer E.W. Godwin in the 1870s, an example of which is on view nearby (#2005.20), and the popular line of lightwight "Sussex" chairs made by Morris & Company a decade earlier, seen to the left (#2003.14).
Status
On view
Object number2002.15
Herter Brothers
1881-1882
Object number: 2021.9
Photography © 2014 Fredrik Nilsen
Herter Brothers
ca. 1878
Object number: 2000.12
Goblet
McKee Brother
ca. 1860
Object number: 2000.18.8
Woman with a Fan
Albert Herter
ca. 1895
Object number: 2017.8
Carver Chair
Unknown, American
ca. 1690
Object number: L2015.41.98
Side Chair
Unknown, American, 18th Century
1740-1765
Object number: 2016.11.18
Side Chair
Unknown, American
1760-1780
Object number: 2016.11.12
Side Chair
John Gaines III
ca. 1735-43
Object number: L2015.41.89
Brace-back Windsor Side Chair
Unknown, American
ca. 1780
Object number: 2016.25.68
Banister-back Side Chair
Unknown, American
ca. 1710-1725
Object number: 2016.25.66
Photography © 2015 Fredrik Nilsen
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
ca. 1903
Object number: 2003.10