CHARLES ROHLFS | TALL CANDLE STAND
Auction Closed
July 30, 06:21 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
CHARLES ROHLFS
TALL CANDLE STAND
1905
with the original adjustable candle holder and drip pan, and original smoke hood hanging above
oak, hand-wrought copper, hand-wrought iron
carved with the maker's "sign of the saw" cipher and dated 1905
34⅞ × 9⅝ × 8½ in. (88.6 × 24.4 × 21.4 cm)
Treadway Toomey Auctions, Oak Park, Illinois, September 10, 2006, lot 400
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Joseph Cunningham, The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs, New Haven, CT, 2008, p. 208 (for the present lot illustrated) and pp. 252, 253, 258, 260 (for period promotional cards for related models in the Department of Drawings and Prints of The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Rachel Elizabeth Delphia, “The Allure of Leeds House,” Magazine Antiques, March/April 2015, p. 74 (for the present lot illustrated)