Property from the Collection of Daniel Wolf

Frank Lloyd Wright

'Weed' Vase

Auction Closed

June 11, 08:36 PM GMT

Estimate

60,000 - 80,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection of Daniel Wolf

Frank Lloyd Wright

"Weed" Vase


circa 1895-1900

executed by James A. Miller and Brother, Chicago

patinated copper

28 in. (71.1 cm) high

Frank Lloyd Wright

John Lloyd Wright

Edgar Kaufmann, Jr., New York

Sotheby's New York, December 1, 1989, lot 667

Acquired from the above by the present owner

John Lloyd Wright, My Father Who Is on Earth, New York, 1946, p. 24 (for an anecdotal account of Wright's Weed Vase design)

Robert Judson Clark, ed., The Arts and Crafts Movement in America 1876-1916, Princeton, 1972, p. 68

Isabelle Anscombe and Charlotte Gere, Arts & Crafts in Britain and America, New York, 1978, p. 182

David A. Hanks, The Decorative Designs of Frank Lloyd Wright, New York, 1979, pp. 20 (for a period photograph showing a Weed Vase in Wright's Oak Park studio, circa 1898), 33, 70 and 192-193

Brian A. Spencer, The Prairie School Tradition: The Prairie Archives of the Milwaukee Art Center, New York, 1979, p. 51

Tod M. Volpe and Beth Cathers, Treasures of the American Arts and Crafts Movement 1890-1920, New York, 1988, p. 134

David A. Hanks, Frank Lloyd Wright: Preserving an Architectural Heritage: Decorative Designs from The Domino's Pizza Collection, New York, 1989, pp. 24-25 

Judy Rudoe, Decorative Arts 1850-1950: A Catalogue of the British Museum Collection, London, 1991, p. 252

Thomas Heinz, Frank Lloyd Wright: Glass Art, New York, 1994, pp. 224-225 

Diane Maddex, 50 Favorite Furnishings by Frank Lloyd Wright, New York, 1999, p. 102

Wendy Kaplan, The Arts & Crafts Movement in Europe & America: Design for the Modern World, New York, 2004, p. 265

Judith A. Barter, Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago, New Haven, CT, 2009, p. 180

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