Important Design
Important Design
Property from a Florida Family
CHARLES ROHLFS AND ANNA KATHARINE GREEN | AN IMPORTANT AND RARE DESK CHAIR
Auction Closed
July 30, 06:21 PM GMT
Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Florida Family
CHARLES ROHLFS AND ANNA KATHARINE GREEN
AN IMPORTANT AND RARE DESK CHAIR
circa 1900-1910
mahogany
carved with the maker's "sign of the saw" cipher
54 x 17¼ x 16 in. (137.2 x 43.8 x 40.6 cm)
Private Collection, Florida, circa early 1970s
Michael L. James, Drama in Design: The Life and Crafts of Charles Rohlfs, Buffalo, New York, 1994, p. 67
Joseph Cunningham, The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs, New Haven, CT, 2008, cover and pp. 98-103 (for the model, collection of American Decorative Art 1900 Foundation, promised gift to The Metropolitan Museum of Art) and 204 (for a period photograph of the model in situ in the artist's residence from the collection of the Winterthur Library)
Joseph Cunningham, "Anna Katherine Green and Charles Rohlfs: Artistic Collaborators," The Magazine Antiques, December 2008, cover and p. 71 (for the above example)