Modern America: The Wolf Family Collection

Modern America: The Wolf Family Collection

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Greene & Greene

Set of Ten Dining Chairs from the Cordelia A. Culbertson House, Pasadena, California

Auction Closed

April 20, 07:56 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Greene & Greene

Set of Ten Dining Chairs from the Cordelia A. Culbertson House, Pasadena, California


Executed circa 1913.

executed in the workshop of Peter Hall, Pasadena, California

mahogany, oak, fabric upholstery

each branded Sumner/Greene/His/True/Mark

36 3/4 x 19 3/4 x 22 in. (93.3 x 50.2 x 55.9 cm.) each

Cordelia, Kate, and Margaret Culbertson, Pasadena, California, circa 1912
Elisabeth Severance Allen Prentiss and Francis F. Prentiss, Pasadena, California and Cleveland, Ohio, 1917
Marion Millikin, Cleveland, Ohio, 1944
Rea S. Taylor, 1945-1996
McClelland and Rachen, New York
Wolf Family Collection No. 1261 (acquired from the above, February 24, 2006)

Randell L. Makinson, Greene & Greene: Furniture and Related Designs, Santa Barbara and Salt Lake City, 1979, p. 108 (for a period photograph of the present lot illustrated in situ)