Lot 873
An American Renaissance Carved and Burl Walnut Bedroom Suite, c. 1860, Mitchell & Rammelsberg, Cincinnati, Ohio, comprising a bedstead and princess dresser; the bedstead and mirror with cartouche crest, floral and burl panels and headboard, bracketed rails; arched rounded footboard; the dresser with pendant drops and candle shelves, marble top center above two drawers flanked by marble top pedestal ends containing four drawers, carved foliate pulls, blocked base, back of mirror stamped; cast iron hardware stamped, dresser height 101 in., width 57 in., depth 22 in.; bed height 109 in., length 80 in., depth 60 in. Note : The interplay of burl veneers, boldly carved adornments, and large proportions on this suite are typical of bedroom furniture known from Mitchell and Rammelsberg in the years surrounding the Civil War. Scholar Ulysses Dietz notes that mid-western furniture makers worked on a ""larger than lif$E"" scale to appeal to the less tradition-bound society of the West. A bedroom suite consisting of bedstead, dresser and armoire with a Mitchell and Rammelsberg label identical to that offered here was sold as lot 435 by Neal Auction Company, February 11, 1991 Reference: Dietz, A Century of Revivals, p. 37, pl. 29 and Dubrow. American Furniture of the 19th c. 1840-1880, p 210."
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