Dressing glass, 1881–82, Made in New York, New York, United States, American, Satinwood, purpleheart, mother-of-pearl, brass, and mirror glass, 23 1/4 × 15 3/4 × 10 1/2 in. (59.1 × 40 × 26.7 cm), Furniture, George A. Schastey & Co. (1873–97), George A. Schastey (1839–1894), In 1881, Arabella Worsham, then-mistress of railroad magnate Collis P. Huntington, hired George A. Schastey & Co. to decorate her townhouse at 4 West Fifty-Fourth Street in New York City. The resulting artistic interiors would have been considered the height of cosmopolitan style in the early 1880s and were emblematic of Worsham’s quest to fashion her identity as a wealthy, prominent woman of taste
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Dressing glass, 1881–82, New York, United States, American, Satinwood, purpleheart, mother, pearl, brass, mirror, 23 1/4, 15 3/4, 10 1/2, 59.1, 40, 26.7 cm, Furniture, George A. Schastey & Co., 1873–97, Schastey, 1839–1894, 1881, Arabella Worsham, -mistress, railroad magnate, Collis, P, Huntington, hired George, Schastey &, Co, decorate, townhouse, 4 West, Fifty-Fourth, Street, City, resulting artistic, interiors, considered, height, cosmopolitan style, early 1880s, emblematic, Worsham, quest, fashion, identity, wealthy, prominent woman, taste
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