'Burro' ashstand
Designer
Walter B. Gilbert
Year
circa 1938
Design Museum Section
American Western Vernacular Design
Categories
Ashtrays, Lighters
Designheroes ID
326063
Auction House
Sotheby's
Headquarter
New York, United States
Availability
sold
Condition
pre-owned/vintage
Sale name
Important Design
Sale Location
New York, United States
'Burro' ashstand
Patinated iron
circa 1938
impressed W.B GILBERT/ALBUQUERQUE/NM/PAT APD/FOR
23⅜ in. (59.4 cm) high
Catalog note
Property of a Los Angeles Collector
Literature
Terry Winchell, Molesworth: The Pioneer of Western Design, Layton, UT, 2005, pp. 42, 58-59, 139 and 168
Provenance
Walter B. Gilbert Wrought Iron Studios, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Private Collection, Phoenix, Arizona
Acquired from the above by the present owner