ATTRIBUTED TO R.J. HORNER & COMPANY (W. 1886-1915), NEW YORK CITY, CIRCA 1890

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A VICTORIAN FAUX-BAMBOO FIGURED MAPLE WRITING DESK
Attributed to R.J. Horner & Company (w. 1886-1915), New York City, circa 1890
In two parts, the upper with bamboo-turned gallery on back and sides, with pointed center, above a rectangular top over a conforming frame in three sections, the central with open shelf, the outer sections with doors opening to compartmented interiors, all surrounded by bamboo turnings; the lower section with rectangular top with slantfront with inset rectangular leather panel, opening to compartmented interior, above a rectangular case with two short drawers on proper right left side, all surrounded by turned bamboo moldings, all on bamboo legs with turned bamboo stretchers and feet
53¾in. high, 32in. wide, 22¾in deep

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Lot Essay

For similar examples, see Pierce, Art and Enterprise: American Decorative Art, 1825-1917, The Virginia Carroll Crawford Collection (Atlanta, 1999), cat. 120, pp. 230-231 and Metropolitan Museum of Art, 19th Century America, Furniture and Other Decorative Arts: An Exhibition in Celebration of the Hundredth Anniversary of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 16 through September 7, 1970 (New York, 1970), cat. 228.

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