Property of an Important American Collector
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Greene & Greene Charles Sumner Greene and Henry Mather Greene
Sofa, from the living room of the Robert R. Blacker House, Pasadena, California
估價
$300,000–500,000
circa 1913
Honduran mahogany, ebony, silk.
87 3/4 x 34 1/2 x 34 1/4 in. (222.9 x 87.6 x 87 cm)
Produced in the workshop of John and Peter Hall, Pasadena, California.
完整圖錄內容
Greene & Greene designed two known sofa models for the living room of the Blacker House. The furnishings for the living room were distinguished by several decorative and material features seen in the present lot: the use of ebony inlays, softly arched crest rails, lily pad motifs, inverted corners of the armrests and straight legs with U-shaped depressions above the feet. The first, slightly smaller sofa, was created with the other living room furnishings circa 1908. The present sofa was likely conceived and produced circa 1913 at time in which several other modifications were made to the house by the Greenes at the request of the Blackers. The two sofas share the same form and decorative vocabulary, however the double bracket motif used at the corners of the aprons where the seat meets the legs is reticulated in the smaller sofa and executed in relief in the present example. Like the wardrobe, the present lot is believed to have been sold at the Blacker House yard sale, circa 1947, a fact which the house inventory from the 1940s appears to confirm.