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Lot 424
  • 424

Charles Rohlfs

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Description

  • Charles Rohlfs
  • Blanket Chest
  • the top carved with decorative monogram MR/S, branded with the maker's ''sign of the saw'' cipher and dated 19/07
  • oak with hand-wrought copper and iron hardware, with an ash-lined interior and two ash interior storage trays with leather handles

Provenance

Cathers & Dembrosky, New York

Literature

Clara Ruge, ''Das Kunstgewerbe Amerikas,'' Kunst und Kunsthandwerk, March 1902, p. 137 (for the period photograph shown right)
Marsha Houk, ''An Artist Who Works in Wood,'' Woman's Home Companion, June 1902, p. 26 (for a similar blanket chest)
Michael L. James, Drama in Design:  The Life and Craft of Charles Rohlfs, Buffalo, 1994, p. 86 (for a related wedding chest executed by Rohlfs for his son Roland)