Lot 78
An American Aesthetic Birdseye Maple Faux Bamboo Bedstead, late 19th c., attributed to R J Horner & Co., New York, the ball finials over a stepped and reticulated gallery with 'spiderweb' and birdseye panels below, bracketed rails and suppressed bun feet, height 67 in., inside width 57 in., length 78in E6000-8000 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 A faux bamboo bed, also attributed to Horner, with nearly identical spoke panels to the lot featured above was sold as lot 264 in the Neal's March 4, 2006 auction. Reference: Pierce, Art and Enterprise: American Decorative Art,
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