Important 20th Century Design

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Lot 9
  • 9

Greene & Greene

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Description

  • Greene & Greene
  • Blanket Chest from the Charles M. Pratt House, Ojai, California

  • oak and Port Orford cedar

  • executed in the workshops of Peter and John Hall, Pasadena, CA

Provenance

Jennie E. Culbert Trust
Christie's New York, June 14, 1985, lot 143B
Christie's New York, June 12, 1997, lot 50
William Bradley Pitt
Jean-Louis Rubin, Tokyo

Literature

Randell L. Makinson, Greene & Greene: Architecture as a Fine Art, Salt Lake City, 1977, p. 173 (for this blanket chest design in one of the upstairs bedrooms of the Pratt House)

Catalogue Note

This blanket chest is one of three known examples of this design which furnished the upstairs bedrooms of the Pratt House.  The three chests were sold at Christie's New York in 1985 when an extensive group of furnishings was de-accessioned from the house.