A FINE BURLED FIR 'THUNDERBIRD' CREDENZA

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A FINE BURLED FIR 'THUNDERBIRD' CREDENZA
BY THOMAS MOLESWORTH, CIRCA 1935-1937

With a rectangular over-upholstered red and white leather top, above two frieze drawers with horn pulls, decorated with Indian inspired hieroglyphs, above two doors inset with cherry panels carved in light relief to depict Indian scenes, applied with split burl pilasters, the sides decorated with thunderbirds, on burl feet, decorated throughout with routered figuring--38in. (96.5cm.) high, 53½in. (136cm.) wide, 21½in. (54.6cm.) deep

Lot Essay

This cabinet design is seen again in Mr. Molesworth's Lilliputian roomscape. cf.Wally Reber and Paul Fees, Interior West: the Craft & Style of Thomas Molesworth, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wyoming, 1989, pp. 50-51