Crafting Modernism: Masters of the American Studio Design Movement from the Pinnacle Art Collection

Crafting Modernism: Masters of the American Studio Design Movement from the Pinnacle Art Collection

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Charles Rohlfs

Hall Chair

Auction Closed

June 10, 03:47 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 20,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Charles Rohlfs

Hall Chair


circa 1900

stained oak

carved with the maker's "sign of the saw" cipher

47¼ x 18⅝ x 15 in. (120 x 47.3 x 38.1 cm)

Rago Auctions, Lambertville, New Jersey, October 17, 2015, lot 586
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Wendy Kaplan, The Art that is Life: The Arts & Crafts Movement in America, 1875-1920, Boston, 1987, p. 240 (for a related example)
Tod M. Volpe and Beth Cathers, Treasures of the American Arts and Crafts Movement: 1890-1920, New York, 1988, p. 47 (for a related example)
Leslie Greene Bowman, American Arts & Crafts: Virtue in Design, Los Angeles, 1990, pp. 44 and 60 (for a related example)
David Cathers, Stickley Style: Arts and Crafts Homes in the Craftsman Tradition, New York, 1999, p. 152 (for a related example)
Joseph Cunningham, The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs, New Haven, CT, 2008, pp. XVI, XXII, 72, 74, 76 and 202 (for related examples)