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Lot 1288W

A very fine Aesthetic movement ebonized and penwork-decorated cabinet
Cottier & Co., London, third quarter 19th century

26 October 2015, 10:00 EDT
New York

US$8,000 - US$12,000

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A very fine Aesthetic movement ebonized and penwork-decorated cabinet
Cottier & Co., London, third quarter 19th century

Back of both upper and lower sections and tops of both lower-case cabinet doors stamped COTTIER + CO.
height 82 1/4in (209cm); width of cornice 76 1/2in (194.3cm); greatest depth of lower section 25 3/4in (65.4cm)

Footnotes

Provenance
Collection of Mrs. Noble
Sold Sotheby's Belgravia, English Furniture & Works of Art, European Bronzes and Arts & Crafts Furniture and Works of Art 1830-1930, 5 February 1975, lot 84.

Literature
Jeremy Cooper, Victorian and Edwardian Furniture and Interiors, (Thames & Hudson, London, 1988), p. 152, pl. 390.

The firm of Cottier and Co. was established in London in 1869 by Daniel Cottier, who was in partnership at the time with John McKean Brydon, William Wallace and Bruce J. Talbert. The firm expanded rapidly and by 1873 had opened branch offices in both New York and Sydney, Australia.

Cottier, like his contemporaries, Herter Brothers, Morris & Company and Tiffany's "Associated Artists", was in the business of providing his clients complete aesthetic interiors and offered a full range of furniture, stained glass, textiles and decorating services. The taste for ebonized furniture ornamented with penwork decoration of natural or Eastern design was widely popular and is demonstrated in its full development here.

For an extensive discussion of the firm, see Max Donnelly, "Cottier and Company: Art Furniture Makers," The Magazine Antiques, June 2001, p. 916.

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