Charles Rohlfs
Hall Chair
Auction Closed
June 10, 03:47 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Charles Rohlfs
Hall Chair
circa 1900
stained oak
carved with the maker's "sign of the saw" cipher
47¼ x 18⅝ x 15 in. (120 x 47.3 x 38.1 cm)
Rago Auctions, Lambertville, New Jersey, October 17, 2015, lot 586
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Wendy Kaplan, The Art that is Life: The Arts & Crafts Movement in America, 1875-1920, Boston, 1987, p. 240 (for a related example)
Tod M. Volpe and Beth Cathers, Treasures of the American Arts and Crafts Movement: 1890-1920, New York, 1988, p. 47 (for a related example)
Leslie Greene Bowman, American Arts & Crafts: Virtue in Design, Los Angeles, 1990, pp. 44 and 60 (for a related example)
David Cathers, Stickley Style: Arts and Crafts Homes in the Craftsman Tradition, New York, 1999, p. 152 (for a related example)
Joseph Cunningham, The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs, New Haven, CT, 2008, pp. XVI, XXII, 72, 74, 76 and 202 (for related examples)
Tod M. Volpe and Beth Cathers, Treasures of the American Arts and Crafts Movement: 1890-1920, New York, 1988, p. 47 (for a related example)
Leslie Greene Bowman, American Arts & Crafts: Virtue in Design, Los Angeles, 1990, pp. 44 and 60 (for a related example)
David Cathers, Stickley Style: Arts and Crafts Homes in the Craftsman Tradition, New York, 1999, p. 152 (for a related example)
Joseph Cunningham, The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs, New Haven, CT, 2008, pp. XVI, XXII, 72, 74, 76 and 202 (for related examples)
