Important Design
Important Design
Property from the Collection of Robert Kaplan, Maplewood, New Jersey
Harvey Ellis
Side Chair
Auction Closed
December 10, 11:19 PM GMT
Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Collection of Robert Kaplan, Maplewood, New Jersey
Harvey Ellis
Side Chair
circa 1903
executed by the Craftsman Workshops of Gustav Stickley, Eastwood, New York
inlays executed by the workshop of George Henry Jones, New York
oak, pewter, copper and stained wood inlays, original rush seat
with the firm's decal
47 1/2 x 18 1/4 x 20 1/4 in. (120.7 x 46.4 x 51.4 cm)
Private Collection, Plymouth, Massachusetts, circa 1903
Private Collection, circa 1978
Freeman's, Philadelphia, March 19, 2017, lot 1
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Private Collection, circa 1978
Freeman's, Philadelphia, March 19, 2017, lot 1
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Tod M. Volpe and Beth Cathers, Treasures of the American Arts and Crafts Movement: 1890-1920, New York, 1988, p. 36 (for the model with a variant of the inlay design)
Leslie Greene Bowman, American Arts & Crafts: Virtue in Design, Los Angeles, 1990, p.80 (for the model with a variant of the inlay design)
David M. Cathers, Furniture of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, Philmont, NY, 1996, p. 47 (for the model with a variant of the inlay design)
David Cathers and Alexander Vertikoff, Stickley Style: Arts and Crafts Homes in the Craftsman Tradition, New York, 1999, pp. 93, 132 (for the model with a variant of the inlay design) and 172
David Cathers, Gustav Stickley, New York, 2003, p. 223 (for the model with a variant of the inlay design)
Kevin W. Tucker, Gustav Stickley and the American Arts & Crafts Movement, exh. cat., Dallas Museum of Art, 2010, frontispiece and pp. 46 and 153
Leslie Greene Bowman, American Arts & Crafts: Virtue in Design, Los Angeles, 1990, p.80 (for the model with a variant of the inlay design)
David M. Cathers, Furniture of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, Philmont, NY, 1996, p. 47 (for the model with a variant of the inlay design)
David Cathers and Alexander Vertikoff, Stickley Style: Arts and Crafts Homes in the Craftsman Tradition, New York, 1999, pp. 93, 132 (for the model with a variant of the inlay design) and 172
David Cathers, Gustav Stickley, New York, 2003, p. 223 (for the model with a variant of the inlay design)
Kevin W. Tucker, Gustav Stickley and the American Arts & Crafts Movement, exh. cat., Dallas Museum of Art, 2010, frontispiece and pp. 46 and 153