Artist Christopher Dresser, English, 1834-1904
Maker W. Booty, English
Title
  • Cabinet
Date ca. 1880
Medium ebonized and gilded mahogany
Dimensions Overall: 78 × 53 × 16 inches (198.1 × 134.6 × 40.6 cm)
Credit Line Museum Purchase, de GrimmeDeGrimme Fund
Accession Number 2015.15
Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts
On View Modern N2AA, Level 2 (see map)
Marks Printed, on oval label: W. BOOTY | UPHOLSTERER, CABINET MAKER | AND | APPRAISER | HOUSE AND ESTATE AGENT | FUNERALS PERFORMED | 137 & 199 . HIGH St NOTTING HILL. W
(Fine Art Society PLC, London, England);
2015-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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.