LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oak with the original polychrome stain and wrought-iron hardware

Measurements:

65.75 in. (167.00 cm.) (height) by 65.51 in. (166.40 cm.) (width) by 22.01 in. (55.90 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Markings:

branded BYRDCLIFFE 1904 with the colony's lily cypher

Literature:

The Byrdcliffe Arts & Crafts Colony, exh. cat., p. 25, no. 5 (for a related example of the form) . Robert Edwards, "The Utopias of Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead," The Magazine Antiques, January 1985, p. 267 (for a related example of the form). Wendy Kaplan, The Art That is Life: The Arts & Crafts Movement, 1875-1920, Boston, 1987, pp. 34 (for a related cabinet with carved maple leaves in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art) and p. 229 (for a related example of the form). Robert Edwards, "Furniture designed at the Byrdcliffe Arts and Crafts Colony," The Magazine Antiques, May 2003, p. 111 (for the present lot illustrated). Nancy E. Greene, ed., Byrdcliffe: An American Arts and Crafts Colony, Ithaca, 2004, p. 4 (for the Metropolitan's cabinet), and pp. 74, 167 and 172-173 (for related examples of the form)

Provenance:

Jane Byrd McCall Whitehead and Ralph Radcliffe-Whitehead, founders of the Byrdcliffe Arts & Crafts Colony, Woodstock, NY. Thence by descent . Brigg's Auction Inc., Boothwyn, PA, May 20, 2002, lot 145. Acquired from the above by the present owner