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Gustav Stickley

A Rare Library Table

Auction Closed

December 8, 07:38 PM GMT

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Gustav Stickley

A Rare Library Table


circa 1901

model no. 409

executed by the Craftsman Workshops of Gustav Stickley, Eastwood, New York

oak, original leather, wrought iron, brass tacks

with firm's mark

30 x 60½ x 36¼ in. (76.2 x 153.7 x 92.1 cm)

Chips from the Workshops of the United Crafts, sales cat., Eastwood, NY, 1901, p. 8
Stephen Gray, The Early Work of Gustav Stickley, New York, 1987, pp. 28 and 44 (for a drawing of the model)
David M. Cathers, Furniture of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, Philmont, NY, 1996, front cover and p. 210 (for the present lot illustrated)
David M. Cathers, Gustav Stickley, London, 2003, p. 49 (for a period photograph of the model exhibited at the 1901 Pan American Exposition, Buffalo, NY)
Kevin W. Tucker, Gustav Stickley and the American Arts and Crafts Movement, exh. cat., Dallas Museum of Art, 2010, p. 57 (for the above mentioned drawing)
Stephen Gray, At Home with Gustav Stickley: Arts & Crafts from the Stephen Gray Collection, exh. cat., Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 2008, p. 78
David Cathers and Susan J. Montgomery, Arts and Crafts Furniture from the Collection of the Two Red Roses Foundation, Palm Harbor, FL, 2017, p. 256