Lot 533
A Pair of American Highly Carved Mahogany Tabourets, late 19th c., possibly Cincinnati School, of Orientalist influence, hexagonal radially veneered tops with egg-and-dart molded edge, the pierced skirt with naturalistic carved flowers and foliage in panels above trilobed arches, roaring lions carved at each corner, on cabriole legs ending in hairy paw feet, height 17 in., width 17 in. E800/1000 Note:The importance of Cincinnati wood carving taught at the University of Cincinnati School of Design by Benn Pitman and Henry and William Fry is well-known; in fact, a bed designed by Pitman and carved by Adelaide Nourse, his wife, is one of the masterpieces of the American Aesthetic Movement. Pitman summed up his theory of design in 1895 in APlea for American Decorative Art when he said that acceptable adornment could be understood as "the correct and appropriate representation of the facts and forms of nature, combined with the intelligent employment of the decorative forms bequeathed to us by theart workers of the past... The all-pervading lesson of nature seems tobe, that the useful should be made beautiful." See Anita Ellis "Cincinnati Art Furniture, The Magazine Antiques, April 1982.
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