Ceiling fixture for the Mrs. Richard Pol | Wright

Estimated value: 10.000-15.000 US$

Auction:
Modernist 20th Century

Sales date: 2004-06-06

Location:
Chicago

Lot number: 192

Design William Gray Purcell, George Grant Elmslie
Year 1917
Architonic id 4103963

Ceiling fixture for the Mrs. Richard Polson House
Bronze, glass
16"w x 16"d x 25"h
This ceiling fixture comes from the house of Mrs. Richard Polson of Spooner, Wisconsin. Mrs. Polson was a wealthy Chicago woman who commissioned Purcell and Elmslie to build this modest house as a wedding present for her son, D. B. Brockett and his wife Nan. The house is on the National Register of Historic Places and this bronze fixture is listed in the register as designed by Purcell and Elmslie.