Rococo-revival carved rosewood "Fountain Elms" settee

john henry belter ( 1804- 1863) new york, 1850-1860

Deeply carved with roses, grapes, acorns and cornucopia.

H: 48 1/2 L: 77 D: 39 in



PROVENANCE:

This settee is part of a suite of furniture that descended in the family of original owner, Samuel and Sofia Catherine Littlewood Milbank of New York City to Elizabeth and William A. Burtis Cauldwell to Caroline Cauldwell Foote to Priscilla Foote Dickson to the present owner. Correspondence from Joseph Downs, Alice Winchester and many others as well as drafts, research notes and photocopy of an article published in The Christian Science Monitor August 19, 1933, by Caroline Cauldwell Foote, regarding the life andwork of Belter and showing 1850's studio photograph of original owner, accompanies lot.
Exhibition:
This settee and an armchair from this suite was exhibited in Loan Exhibition of New York State Furniture, Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 5 - April 22, 1934.
Literature:
Joseph Downs, John Henry Belter and Company, The Magazine Antiques, September, 1948, pg. 166-168. In the article, Downs suggested that " perhaps the most valuable collection of Belter furniture now in existence is owned by Mrs. Edward M. Foote."

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