Pottier & Stymus
A premier New York cabinet making firm, Pottier and Stymus was known for high-style furniture in the Neo-Grec, Renaissance Revival, Egyptian Revival and Modern Gothic styles. With beginnings in the 1840′s, the firm moved to the 375 Lexington Street address between 41st and 42nd Streets in 1871.
Pottier & Stymus Manufacturing Company used a number to identify each completed piece and the same number for each of its component parts, in addition to signing their works with a stamped PS or P & S. The company also had its own metals department, and therefore cast and finished its own furniture mounts with similar signatures and numeric markings.
During their careers, Mr. Pottier and Mr. Stymus were associated with several other major decorators and cabinet makers, including E. H. Hutchings & Company, 1847; Herter Brothers, Pottier & Company, 1853; Rochefort & Skarren, late 1850s; and Pottier & Stymus (took over Rochefort & Skarren, 1859 to 1897).
An armchair produced for the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition was subsequently presented to the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Auguste Pottier in 1888. Other works attributed to Pottier & Stymus are now in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of the City of New York, and the Margaret Woodbury Strong Museum, Rochester, New York.
Information courtesy of Neal Auction Company