Important Design: from Noguchi to Lalanne

Important Design: from Noguchi to Lalanne

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Gustav Stickley

Gong

Auction Closed

May 25, 06:32 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Gustav Stickley

Gong


circa 1901

together with the original striker

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

oak, bronze, iron, leather cord

with retail label printed GEO. C. FLINT CO./WEST 23RD ST., N.Y.

36 3/4 x 22 5/8 x 10 3/8 in. (67.9 x 57.5 x 26.3 cm)

Private Collection, Brookline, Massachusetts, circa 1901
Thence by descent
Acquired from the above by the present owner
The Craftsman, Vol. I, No. 2, Eastwood, NY, November 1901, p. 50 (for a period photograph of the model exhibited at the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, NY, 1901)
Stephen Gray and Robert Edwards, Collected Works of Gustav Stickley, New York, 1981, p. 16
Stephen Gray, The Early Works of Gustav Stickley, New York, 1987, pp. 62 (for a drawing of the model from the "Chips from the Workshops of the United Crafts" catalogue, 1901) and 113
A. Patricia Bartinique, Gustav Stickley, His Craft, exh. cat., Craftsman Farms, Parsippany, NJ, November 15, 1992-January 31, 1993, p. 33
Barbara Mayer, In The Arts & Crafts Style, San Francisco, 1993, p. 49
David Cathers, Gustav Stickley, New York, 2003, pp. 48 (for the above mentioned period photograph) and 108 (for a period photograph of the model exhibited in the Craftsman model room, Marshall Field and Company, Chicago, 1904)