Lot 319
An American Renaissance Carved Walnut, Burled and Ebonized Bedroom Suite, mid-19th c., attributed to Thomas Brooks, Brooklyn, New York, comprising a bedstead, dresser and side-lock chest of drawers, the bedstead with a monumental headboard and arched crest centered by an anthemion over a chased and patinated plaque of Venus and Amore, burled panels, bosses flanked by large finials, conforming low footboard with plaque, shaped rails; the side-lock chest having six paneled drawers, original glass pulls, blocked base; dresser with marble top drop center, tall mirror with candle shelves, three small drawers and low center drawer, blocked base, bed height 110 in., length 82 in., width 59 in.; chest height 61 in., width 35 in., depth 19 1/2 in.; dresser height 80 1/4 in., width 59 in.
- Notes: Note: Operating out of a Brooklyn workshop rather than the fashionable Broadway addresses of his Manhattan competitors, Thomas Brooks produced high-style furniture in the Gothic, Rococo, and Renaissance taste from the 1840's through the 1880's. He received a bronze medal for an étagère exhibited in the New York Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations of 1853 The posts at the head and foot, the blocked plinth and the shaped rails on the bed in this suite are nearly identical to those on a bed bearing the stenciled mark of Brooks illustrated in Dubrow. Styles of American Furniture 1860-1960, p. 60.
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