Important Design
Important Design
GUSTAV STICKLEY | SPINDLE DESK LAMP, MODEL NO. 506
Auction Closed
December 12, 09:10 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
GUSTAV STICKLEY
SPINDLE DESK LAMP, MODEL NO. 506
circa 1908
executed by the Craftsman Workshops of Gustav Stickley, Eastwood, New York
oak, hand-wrought copper, original hammered glass
with firm’s impressed mark
16⅜ x 11½ x 8½ in. (41.5 x 29.2 x 21.5 cm)
Private Family Collection, West Allis, Wisconsin, circa 1908
Acquired from the above by the present owner
The Craftsman, vol. XVII, no. 1, October 1909, p. 98, fig. 1
The Craftsman, vol. XVII, no. 3, December 1909, pp. 338-339 (for a design drawing of the model)
David Cathers, Stickley Craftsman Furniture Catalogs: Unabridged Reprints of Two Mission Furniture Catalogues, New York, 1979, p. 94
Stephen Gray, The Early Work of Gustav Stickley, New York, 1987, p.157
David Cathers and Alexander Vertikoff, Stickley Style: Arts and Crafts Homes in the Craftsman Tradition, New York, 1999, pp. 67 and 106
Kevin W. Tucker, Gustav Stickley and the American Arts & Crafts Movement, exh. cat., Dallas Museum of Art, 2010, p. 212