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Property from a Philadelphia Collection

Gustav Stickley

Humidor

Auction Closed

June 7, 06:14 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 20,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Philadelphia Collection

Gustav Stickley

Humidor


circa 1905

model no. 279

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

hand-wrought copper, oak, leather, original Spanish cedar interior

impressed L.E. RITER and with the firm's impressed mark

7 x 12½ x 8¼ in. (17.8 x 31.7 x 20.9 cm)

Levi Evans Riter, Salt Lake City, Utah, circa 1905
Thence by descent
Private Collection, Phoenix, Arizona
Acquired from the above by the present owner
The Craftsman, 1908, p. 52
Joseph Cunningham, The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs, New Haven, CT, 2008, p. 194
Kevin W. Tucker, Gustav Stickley and the American Arts & Crafts Movement, exh. cat., Dallas Museum of Art, 2010, pp. 196-197
David Cathers, Jonathan Clancy and Susan J. Montgomery, Arts and Crafts Metalwork from the Collection of the Two Red Roses Foundation, Palm Harbor, FL, 2017, pp. 82-83