Footnotes

• Provenance:
  The Estate of Mrs. Mary Hopkins, previously sold Butterfield & Butterfield, Sherwood Hall, October 5, 1942.
  
  This dresser is part of a larger suite of furniture, comprising also in part a tester bedstead, chaise longue, wardrobe and mantel, that was commissioned by Milton Slocum Latham for his Menlo Park residence, Thurlow Lodge. The remainder of the suite was sold Butterfield & Butterfield, Sherwood Hall October 5, 1942, lots 314, 318, 316 and 322, then sold again, Butterfield & Butterfield, Los Angeles, March 25, 1991, lots 1652-1656.
  
  For a detailed account of this important commission, and images of the interior of Thurlow Lodge, see Katherine Howe, Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen and Cathering Hoover Vorsanger, Herter Brothers, Furniture and Interiors for a Gilded Age, (Harry N. Abrams, New York, pp. 158-161).
  
  The celebrated American Renaissance pier mirror and console from this commission of furniture is now in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Auction Notices

• Please not that this lot should read American Renaissance, not American Aesthetic, as stated in the print catalog

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Category: Furniture / American Furniture, Folk Art and Decorative Arts

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