Lot 40: LUCIA KLEINHANS MATHEWS

AN IMPORTANT AND RARE BOX
the interior box lid dated 1916 and inscribed HONEY/SUCKLE
the underside inscribed A poppy for each year, dated 1890/1916 and successively dated 1917 through 1927

painted wood, and with the original silk interior lining
4 1/8 x 13 1/8 x 8 3/8 in. (10.5 x 33.3 x 21.3 cm)
1916
executed by the Furniture Shop of Arthur F. and Lucia K. Mathews, San Francisco, CA

Mathews: Masterpieces of the California Decorative Style, The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA, May 12-July 30, 1972
The Ideal Home 1900-1920: The History of Twentieth-Century American Craft, American Craft Museum, New York, October 21, 1993-February 15, 1994

Harvey L. Jones, Mathews: Masterpieces of the California Decorative Style, Oakland, 1972, p. 102, cat. no. 163 (for the present lot listed in the exhibition checklist)

Presented by the artist as a wedding gift to Albert and Margaret R. Kleinhans, 1916
Thence by descent
Don Magner, Brooklyn, NY
Acquired from the above by the present owner