Live Auction 2392Historical Design Reflects: The East 61st Street Years
Christie’s roundel
Lot 382

ATTRIBUTED TO JAMES AMSTER (d. 1986)

A CHROMED-METAL AND GLASS FIRESCREEN, CIRCA 1935

Closed8 December 2009

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ATTRIBUTED TO JAMES AMSTER (d. 1986)
A Chromed-Metal and Glass Firescreen, circa 1935
21¼ in. (54 cm.) high, 36 in. (91.5 cm.) wide, 7¾ in. (19.8 cm.) deep

Specialist note

cf. A. Duncan, Modernism: Modernist Design 1880-1940 The Norwest Collection, Suffolk, 1998, p. 218 for a centerpiece of comparable design.