About the Artwork
Cabinet
ca. 1880
Christopher Dresser (Artist) English, 1834-1904 W. Booty (Maker) English
Ebonized and gilded mahogany
Overall: 78 × 53 × 16 inches (198.1 × 134.6 × 40.6 cm)
Furniture
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Museum Purchase, de GrimmeDeGrimme Fund
2015.15
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Markings
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Printed, on oval label: W. BOOTY | UPHOLSTERER, CABINET MAKER | AND | APPRAISER | HOUSE AND ESTATE AGENT | FUNERALS PERFORMED | 137 & 199 . HIGH St NOTTING HILL. W
Provenance
(Fine Art Society PLC, London, England)
2015-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Darr, Alan Phipps, Yao-Fen You, and Megan Reddicks. “Recent Acquisitions (2007–15) of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the Detroit Institute of Arts.” The Burlington Magazine 158 (June 2016): 501–512, p. 510 (ill.).
The John Scott Collection: Truth, Beauty, Power, the Designs of Christopher Dresser, 1834–1904. Vol. 5. London, 2015, pp. 74–75, no. 136.
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Christopher Dresser; W. Booty, Cabinet, ca. 1880, ebonized and gilded mahogany. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, de GrimmeDeGrimme Fund, 2015.15.
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