Photo: Clars Auction Gallery.
Three Herter Brothers armchairs from Thurlow Lodge sold at Clars on July 17. Clars lists the three results at $16,000, $16,000, and $27,500—$59,500 across the three lots.
What makes these more than three handsome Renaissance Revival chairs is the paper trail. Clars catalogued them as pieces commissioned about 1872 for the billiard room at Milton Slocum Latham’s Menlo Park estate, Thurlow Lodge. Each has the theatrical central masque and husk swags at the crest, heron-form arm supports, and fluted legs joined by stretchers. That is the sort of provenance I like to see attached to a Herter Brothers attribution.
Clars also records that the chairs passed through the Mary K. Hopkins estate and were sold by Butterfield & Butterfield in 1942. You can compare the three catalogued chairs here, here, and here.
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