Warning x
Lot Details


Fall-front Desk by 
																	Harvey Ellis

Harvey Ellis

( American, 1852 - 1904 )

Fall-front Desk

PRICE SOLD

LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oak with copper, pewter and fruitwood inlays and wrought-iron hardware

Measurements:

46.26 in. (117.50 cm.) (height) by 42.01 in. (106.70 cm.) (width) by 11.50 in. (29.20 cm.) (width)

Description:

or LOG IN

Markings:

with firm's decal

Literature:

Frederick R. Brandt, Late 19th and Early 20th Century Decorative Arts: The Sydney and Frances Lewis Collection in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1985, pp. 120-121. Lisa Phillips, High Styles: Twentieth-Century American Design, New York, 1985, p. 17. Stephen Gray, The Early Work of Gustav Stickley, New York, 1987, p. 116. Tod M. Volpe and Beth Cathers, Treasures of the American Arts and Crafts Movement 1890-1920, New York, 1988, p. 32. Janet Kardon, ed., The Ideal Home: The History of Twentieth-Century American Craft 1900-1920, New York, 1993, p. 222. David Cathers and Alexander Vertikoff, Stickley Style: Arts and Crafts Homes in the Craftsman Tradition, New York, 1999, pp. 67 and 92-93. Karen Livingstone and Linda Parry, eds., International Arts and Crafts, London, 2005, p. 159. Judith A. Barter, Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago, Chicago, 2009, p. 102. Kevin W. Tucker et al., Gustav Stickley and the American Arts and Crafts Movement, Dallas, 2010, p. 147 (for the model in the collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond)

Provenance:

Private Family, St Louis, MO. Thence by descent. Acquired from the above by the present owner

TOP ARTISTS

artist

Max Beckmann

(German , b. 1884 - d. 1950)

artist

Fernando Botero

( Colombian , b. 1932 )

artist

Piero Manzoni

( Italian , b. 1933 - d. 1963 )

artist

Canaletto

( Italian , b. 1697 - d. 1768 )

artist

Pieter Brueghel

(Flemish , b. 1564 - d. 1637)

artist

Jean Baptiste Camille Corot

( French , b. 1796 - d. 1875 )

artist

Pablo Picasso

( Spanish , b. 1881 - d. 1973 )

artist

Andy Warhol

( American , b. 1928 - d. 1987 )