Very early, rare and wonderful Dirk van Erp flat top lamp almost certainly the work of the studio's foreman, August Tiesselinck. The most labor intensive cut out work on any of the flat top lamps I have ever seen. Excellent original condition. 19"H x 19W. Broken box, Dirk van Erp mark which dates it to 1913-1914. Likely among the first of the flat top designs. The only one I have ever seen with this four squared clover leaf cut out work, a riff on flower forms and windmills both!
Specializing in Stickley, Limbert, Roycroft, van Erp, Grueby, Newcomb, Rookwood, Handel lamps, plein air paintings, woodblocks, and more; fine examples of the American Arts and Crafts movement 1896-1916.
You can email me at [email protected]. or call me at 415 552-6436, any time from 10 a.m. to 5.p.m (the shop number). If you want to make a purchase, I accept Paypal and Square payments.
Isak Lindenauer
4143 19th Street
San Francisco, California
94114
You can email me at [email protected]. or call me at 415 552-6436, any time from 10 a.m. to 5.p.m (the shop number). If you want to make a purchase, I accept Paypal and Square payments.
Isak Lindenauer
4143 19th Street
San Francisco, California
94114
Rare Newcomb College crash linen table runner with a darning stitch pattern of yellow flowers, perhaps Southern Magnolias, in what I believe is Pearsall's tussah silk with green, purple and blue thread in the background. 44" Length. 18" Width, including its embroidered circle border repeat. In generally good condition with some slight staining, a stitched center and the linen's ends which are doubled over and stitched in the same very fine and even manner. The runner has been stored, folded in a drawer for at least twenty years rather than rolled which I have done since acquiring it. Rolling it for storage has softened the folds somewhat and I am certain it will improve greatly from the proper conservation which I will leave to its next owner.
"A Happy New Year, from William Keith to John Zeile, January 1, 1900. S. F." William Keith, premier California painter occupied a space in the same house in which the Mathews had their Furniture Shop as a post earthquake business endeavor along with their publication, Philopolis. The building was the home of Zeile who was their partner in business at 1717 California Street in San Francisco.
I owned this particular painting some thirty years ago. It was formerly in the collection of my old friend, noted Northern California collector and dealer, Don Ritchie, from whom I purchased the painting. I then sold it to the Getty family. Thereafter it was housed in Bernard Maybeck's Temple of the Wings in Berkeley, 2800 Buena Vista Way. After Ann Getty's passing, many of the objects in their home in Pacific Heights were offered for sale. I was fortunate to be able to buy the framed artwork a second time and bring it back to the city in which it was painted and where its illustrious frame was carved and painted as well. William Keith's and the Furniture Shop's turn of the century association is well documented. (I've been told that both the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento and the De Young Museum here in San Francisco have or have had two or more Keith paintings in Mathews frames but I have yet to see them or corroborate this information.) It means a lot to me to be able to offer this wonderful collaborative work of art again; unexpected, gentle surprise in the ever-turning world of things.The Maybeck house has an interesting history worth reading which can be reached through the link which follows: http://berkeleyheritage.com/berkeley_landmarks/temple_of_wings.html
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