Tag: Vanderbilts

Tables, all designed by New York society decorators Herter Brothers for the Vanderbilts. All fancy. What else would they have wanted.

Console table. Neo-Grecian in style.1869-71.
Console table. Neo-Grecian in style.1869-71. Maple with rosewood inlay and parcel gilt. Attributed to Herter Brothers. Underside of velvet covered top hand-inscribed in graphite “W.H. Vanderbilt / 40 [St.?]” Image © CHRISTIE’S 2019. Fair use license. via https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/the-william-h-vanderbilt-neo-grec-parcel-gilt-and-6097228-details.aspx
Table. Before 1887. Renaissance Revival in style.
Table. Before 1887. Renaissance Revival in style. Has The inlaid malachite ribbons surround the lapis lazuli medallions which are inset with mother-of-pearl. Belonged to Frederick William Vanderbilt. Image Copyright 2019 © Antiquarian Traders, Inc. Fair use license. via http://antiquariantraders.com/shop-antiques/tables/american-renaissance-revival-herter-brothers-table/
Console table used in the drawing room of the William H. Vanderbilt mansion on Fifth Avenue.
Console table used in the drawing room of the William H. Vanderbilt mansion on Fifth Avenue. Classical-Assyrian-Renaissance Revival fusion in style with gilding and an Egyptian alabaster top in a motif of opposing griffins and cornucopias satyrs’ masks that flank a central pillar of abalone. The carved legs are encrusted with teardrop garlands. 1881-1882. Gilded wood, alabaster, and mother-of-pearl. Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. In the public domain. via https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/631986
Console table commissioned for the ground floor atrium. ca. 1881-82. Marble, silverplate and bronze.
Console table commissioned for the ground floor atrium of the William H. Vanderbilt residence at 640 Fifth Avenue. ca. 1881-82. Marble, silverplate and bronze. Image © 2017 Dallas Museum of Art. Fair use license. via https://collections.dma.org/artwork/3101582

Rooms in the Vanderbilt Mansion, 5th Avenue, New York, decorated by Herter Brothers after whom Herter blue is called. 1883. An evocative place never to be visited for it met the wrecking ball long ago. Lithographs from various editions of “Mr. Vanderbilt’s House and Collection”, published by George Barrie.

"View of the Japanese Parlor.”
“View of the Japanese Parlor.” Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Fair use license. via https://www.incollect.com/articles/artistic-furniture-of-the-gilded-age-herter-brothers-and-the-william-h-vanderbilt-house
"Ante room, library."
“Ante room, library.” In the public domain because the maker died over 70 years ago. via http://halfpuddinghalfsauce.blogspot.com/2012/08/mr-vanderbilts-house-and-collection_29.html
"Portion of the Conservatory."
“Portion of the Conservatory.” Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. In the public domain in the United States because the maker has been dead over 70 years. via https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/704714
"A Corner in the Drawing-room.”
“A Corner in the Drawing-room.” Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. In the public domain in the United States because the maker has been dead over 70 years.via https://www.incollect.com/articles/artistic-furniture-of-the-gilded-age-herter-brothers-and-the-william-h-vanderbilt-house
"Southwest corner of the Library."
“Southwest corner of the Library.” Drawn by Nordman. In the public domain in the United States because the artist has been dead over 70 years. via http://halfpuddinghalfsauce.blogspot.com/2012/08/mr-vanderbilts-house-and-collection_29.html