A RARE AND IMPORTANT INLAID OAK DESK

THE PROPERTY OF A LADY

细节

A RARE AND IMPORTANT INLAID OAK DESK
BY HARVEY ELLIS FOR GUSTAV STICKLEY, CIRCA 1903

The rectangular top with overhanging edge above three drawers, the drawers with four circular metal knobs, each surrounded by a ring of pewter inlay, the four flat legs inlaid on the outside with a stylized plant form in copper, pewter and various woods, on H-shaped base, the desk top cabinet with grooved fold-back doors each inlaid with copper and pewter floral medallions, the interior fitted with compartments, flanked by three drawers, the drawer knobs ringed by pewter inlay, with the firm's large red decal with Stickley outlined, and with the retailer's paper label Manufactured by A.A. Gray Company Detroit Michigan, the small upper drawers stamped 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102 respectively, the drawers in the apron stamped 11, 11, 11, from left to right
39 15/16in. (101.4cm.) high, 41¾in. (106cm.) wide, 25 1/8in. (63.8cm.) deep

来源

Frances Gray Boone, Los Angeles

拍品专文

cf. Christie's New York, December 9 & 10, 1994, lot 179 for an example of the desk top compartment which sold for $12,650; Leslie Greene Bowman, American Arts & Crafts, Virtue in Design, Los Angeles County Museum and Bullfinch Press, Boston, 1990, p. 82, fig. 54 for an example of the desk form.