Important Design

Important Design

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Property from the Private Collection of Robert Kaplan, Maplewood, New Jersey

GUSTAV STICKLEY | SET OF FIVE LANTERNS, MODEL NO. 673

Auction Closed

July 30, 06:21 PM GMT

Estimate

35,000 - 50,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Private Collection of Robert Kaplan, Maplewood, New Jersey

GUSTAV STICKLEY

SET OF FIVE LANTERNS, MODEL NO. 673


circa 1905

each lantern with the original hand-wrought copper ceiling canopy

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

hand-wrought copper, hand-wrought iron, original hammered glass

29 in. (73.7 cm) drop each

lanterns: 8 x 7¼ x 7¼ in. (20.3 x 18.4 x 18.4 cm) each


Private Collection, Oregon, Illinois, circa 1905

Thence by descent

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Mary Ann Smith, Gustav Stickley, The Crafstman, New York, 1983, p. 90

Stephen Gray, The Early Work of Gustav Stickley, New York, 1987, p. 170

Ray Stubblebine, Stickley’s Craftsman Homes: Plans, Drawings, Photographs, Layton, UT, 2006, p. 279

Gustav Stickley used this lantern design throughout the Great Room of “Craftsman Farms,” Stickley’s private residence built in 1911 in Morris Plains, New Jersey.  Many of these lanterns still remain installed in the interior of this important Arts & Crafts landmark.