- Title Information
- Title
- Lady's writing table and chair
- Name:
Corporate
- Name Part
- Gorham Manufacturing Company
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- manufacturer
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Codman, William Christmas
- Name Part:
Date
- 1839-1921
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- designer
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Ziegler, Franz
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- carver
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Straker, Joseph Edward
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- silversmith
- Name:
Corporate
- Name Part
- Potter and Company
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- cabinetmaker
- Type of Resource
- still image
- Genre (aat)
- photographs
- Genre (aat)
- ladies' writing tables
- Genre (aat)
- desk chairs
- Origin Information
- Date Issued
(encoding="w3cdtf", keyDate="yes")
- 1903
- Language
- Language Term:
Code (ISO639-2B)
- xxz
- Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph; 67.6 x 69 cm.
- digitalOrigin
- reformatted digital
- Abstract
- Writing desk made for the Gorham display at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis. Also displayed at the Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco in 1915
- Note
- Materials: ebony, mahogany, boxwood, redwood, thuyawood, ivory, mother-of-pearl, silver, mirrored glass, and gilded tooled leather
- Note
- Style: Art nouveau
- Note
- Stamped with Gorham (lion, anchor, G) marks and "sterling" and "C/C/X" on backside of mirror
- Note
- Signed: "WC Codman 1903", burnished along top right edge of center drawer.
- Note
- Measurements of original: 48.5 x 54 x 30 in. (to the height of the mirror); 31 x 54 x 30 in.(to the height of the tabletop); 30 x 18 x 21 in. (chair); 18 in. (height to the seat of the chair)
- Note
- Repository: Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design
- Note:
provenance
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick B. Thurber
- Related Item:
Host
(displayLabel="Collection:")
- Title Information
- Title
- Gorham Collection
- Identifier:
COLID
- 44
- Identifier:
URI
- http://dl.lib.brown.edu
- Identifier:
Local
(displayLabel="RISD Museum accession no.")
- 58.095
- Identifier:
METSID
- 1242315134765625
- Access Condition:
rights statement
(href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/")
- No Copyright - United States
- Access Condition:
restriction on access
- Collection is open for research.