
Property of a New Jersey Collector
Auction Closed
July 30, 06:21 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property of a New Jersey Collector
GUSTAV STICKLEY
EIGHT-PIECE DESK SET, MODEL NO. 12
circa 1905
comprising a blotter pad, pen tray, dish, calendar frame, letter opener, letter rack, inkstand with original glass liner and a stamp box
executed by the Craftsman Workshops of Gustav Stickley, Eastwood, New York
hand-wrought copper
each piece with the firm's impressed mark
blotter pad: 15⅛ x 25⅛ in. (38.4 x 63.8 cm)
Martin Adams, Lawrence, New York, circa 1905
Thence by descent
Acquired from the above by the present owner
David Cathers, Stickley Craftsman Furniture Catalogs: Unabridged Reprints of Two Mission Furniture Catalogues, New York, 1979, p. 83
Leslie Greene Bowman and Douglass Congdon-Martin, The Gustav Stickley Photo Archives, Atglen, PA, 2002, p. 249
Kevin W. Tucker, Gustav Stickley and the American Arts & Crafts Movement, exh. cat., Dallas Museum of Art, 2010, p. 218
David Cathers, Jonathan Clancy and Susan J. Montgomery, Arts and Crafts Metalwork from the Collection of the Two Red Roses Foundation, Palm Harbor, FL, 2017, pp. 68-69