Charles Rohlfs

Charles Rohlfs Carved Oak Prie-Dieu (Kneeler) c1900

Charles Rohlfs Carved Oak Prie-Dieu (Kneeler) c1900. Unsigned. Cleaned original finish. Leather has been professionally replaced using period hard leather. exhibited: Wright, Roycroft, Stickley and Rohlfs: Defining the Buffalo School Arts & Crafts Aesthetic, 9 June - 26 November 2017, Burchfield Penney Art Center at Buffalo State College, NY. literature: The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs, Cunningham, ppg. 87, 228 The House Beautiful, Vol. VII, No 2, January 1900, pg. 83, with a notation "A design for a prie-dieu in its up-rightness of aspect, its straight lines and simply carved cross suggests all the penance and prayers ever offered up in convent or cloister." 37.25"h x 19"w x 19"d