Lot 264
A Fine American Aesthetic Birdseye Maple Faux Bamboo Bedstead, late 19th c., attributed to R.J Horner & Co., New York, having bamboo spindled crest, paneled head and foot board, the uprights with ball finials, with conforming bracketed rails, height 69 in., width 56 in., length 78 in E7000-9000 Note: Introduced to Americans at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, the Japanese aesthetic greatly influenced late 19th-century American design Most of this furniture in the Japonesque taste was produced by firms in New York working from French antecedents such as those found in Victor Quentin's Le Magasin de Meubles Writing in the 1870's Clarence Cook called the new style 'capital stuff' for a country house In 1886 Robert J Horner established his furniture business on East 23rd Street in New York producing work to satisfy a variety of tastes, including pieces in the Japonesque mode A faux bamboo writing desk bearing Horner's label is conserved by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Reference: Pierce, Art and Enterprise: American Decorative Art, 1825-1917, The Virginia Carroll Crawford Collection (Atlanta, 1999), pp 230-23 and Metropolitan Museum of Art, 19th Century America, Furniture and Other Decorative Arts, (New York, 1970), cat 228.
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